[66474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: imagestream vs. Cisco
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Louwers)
Wed Jan 14 13:11:39 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:11:02 +0100
From: Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be>
To: Alex Yuriev <alex@yuriev.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401140919510.21827-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:23:35AM -0500, Alex Yuriev wrote:
>
> Imagestream uses Cisco list prices to sell their wares. No sane person that
> buys from Cisco pays list price.
>
> If one wants to complete with Cisco in a router business, they cannot claim
> that it costs $3411 to get 2x T1 router by Cisco or that 7507 chassis is
> $21,700.
That might be true, but have a look at the following article: they
outperform a 26xx. (Ok, I admit, a 26xx is not a power-monster, but it's
in the same price range as the small rebels)...
http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/0714rev.html
Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers
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