[c-nsp] 10GE on the cheap between a 12000 and a 6500...

[Euan Galloway]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:25:15PM +0000, David Freedman wrote:
> According to global price list
> 
> ( SPA-1X10GE-L-V2 + 12000-SIP-601= (E5) ) < 1X10GE-LR-SC (E4)
> 
> Quite why one would want to spend less money on an E4 with half the
> density is beyond me.

The 1X10GE-LR-SC went EoS about a year ago, but even when both were 
available, getting the IOS change tested and approved to support the E5 
(as well as type approving the new card itself) would have been far more 
expensive (on a number of levels) for us than buying the slightly more 
expensive E4.

"I would like to use the new card, not the old one that we know works" 
wouldn't have got me very far. "The E4 is crap, and the E5 might not be" 
might have been a better arguement to have though.

*shrug*

-- 
Euan Galloway