I wouldn't be surprised to see GOV contracts in that list :) It's the new $10,000 toilet seat to fund black ops!
________________________________________ From: NANOG [nanog-boun...@nanog.org] on behalf of Eric Kuhnke [eric.kuh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 10:41 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Arista unqualified SFP Though it would be really interesting to see, if a company like Cisco or Juniper ever suffered a major data leak, what number of customers really do pay full list price for some stuff. "Yeppers, twenty 1310nm LX 10Gb SFP+ for $4800 each, sounds good. Where do we send the check?" On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Ricky Beam <jfb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:05:30 -0400, Tim Jackson <jackson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> "As I'm sure you know, Arista is not the only manufacturer that has made >> this choice. Unlike our competition, we work to make our optics pricing >> competitive, but we'll never be as low as the "Taiwan specials" that you >> see floating around. I have another customer that was flashing white label >> optics that just made the decision to start using Arista labeled optics >> again because they were tired of bad quality." >> > > I can't count the number of times I've seen this BS from vendors. I'm not > buying crap made in a shack out in a rain forest. I'm buying the same f'ing > optics from the same f'ing people as the vendor. (Finisar, Infineon, etc.) > The only difference between my $10 optic and their $300 optic is the value > in an EEPROM and the logo on the label. > > (I know from experience, the numbers on the price sheet are inflated so > sales can maintain the illusion of "deep customer discounts". As the saying > goes, only an idiot pays list price.) >
