[73544] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sat Aug 28 00:18:51 2004
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:17:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <DD7FE473A8C3C245ADA2A2FE1709D90B0DB363@server2003.arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Michel Py wrote:
> 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.
If the VSR card was $899k, the SR card was $999k and the LR card was $1099
you wouldn't hear any complaints from me.
It's the fact that Cisco is reselling optics (which is not their core
business as far as I see it) at a huge markup that is bothering me.
But then again, if other people want to pay a huge premium that's their
problem, I'm not buying it.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
