[c-nsp] Third-Party support providers for 650x switches ???

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 11/07/2012 13:43, Matthew Huff wrote:
>> We have 4 x 6509 switches, each with 2 x Sup720 cards. In November,
>> they non-E chassis go EOSL. At this time we can't justify upgrading them
>> to the E chassis. Are there any providers that provide past EOSL support
>> that anyone would recommend?
>
> Just get a cold spare from ebay?  It's just the chassis that's going EoS,
> and they're pretty cheap.

E chassis are also relatively cheap on the open market, from what I've 
seen.  I can sort of understand if the justification barrier is the time 
it would take to replace the chassis, or not wanting to incur the 
downtime.  From a cost perspective, the barrier really isn't there.

jms