[c-nsp] risks of service contract non-renewal

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

The newer switches and routers that come out ever year are faster, cheaper
and better.

There is a point at which it doesen't make sense to keep on updating older
gear with new
IOS, and instead start putting the money you would be paying in service
contracts into saving up
for a new shiny switch.  Every year IOS gets bigger and the larger code
paths seem to take
more CPU cycles to get through.  If you cannot update the CPU and ram in the
Cisco
device, there's not a lot of point in maintaining service on it forver and
continuing to get IOS
update after update.

Ted

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Greene" <maillist at webjogger.net>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 7:14 AM
Subject: [c-nsp] risks of service contract non-renewal


> I've got a customer who is thinking of letting the service contracts on
its Cisco gear (L2 and L3 switches) expire, since the switches have limited
lifetime warranties, they have cold spares and if they need technical
assistance, they can ask yours truly.
>
> I think the risk of doing this is that they will lose access to software
upgrades, except in the case of free upgrades to redress security
vulnerabilities.
>
> I wonder if there are any other risks they should be aware of. I assume
they will still be able to gain access to CCO even without a valid service
contract, for example.
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
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