[73541] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Fri Aug 27 22:06:05 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:05:23 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> 4 port OC192 IR $1030k
> Is there anyone who can justify this pricing
> with anything else than "because we can?"
That's a heck of a good reason! Any for-profit business tries hard to
position themselves where they could name their price.
This pricing is consistent with the guesses/predictions that were
floating at the time of the product announcement; there was some
political will to have a million bucks line card (otherwise they would
have priced it at $999,950 ;-). This is Rolls-Royce marketing: if it's
so darn pricey it's because it's so darn good. Like Rolls-Royce cars,
the ones that buy them are typically not the ones that drive them, so
technical arguments tend to become irrelevant.
Michel.
