[cisco-voip] room kits - smartnet or not?

[Scott Voll]

We are smartneting all our kits / kit plus's / sx80's.  we have about 50 in
all.  Smartnet cost are really high....... but we have had a couple RMA's
this first year.  our SE said the other option is SWSS for the software
without hardware maintenance.   but the cost is only slightly lower.

YMMV

Scott


On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:03 AM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

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> Ah – that’s a good point. I remember that for telephony endpoints,
> software was available as part of the CUCM support contract.
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> I wonder if software is available similarly under that situation?
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> *From:* Anthony Holloway <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2019 1:56 PM
> *To:* Charles Goldsmith <w at woka.us>
> *Cc:* Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca>; voyp list, cisco-voip (
> cisco-voip at puck.nether.net) <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] room kits - smartnet or not?
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> Don't you require active smartnet in order to download software for video
> endpoints?  I mean, I suppose if you're gambling on the hardware working
> for that long, you could also gamble on the software to last that long too.
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> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:02 AM Charles Goldsmith <w at woka.us> wrote:
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> Phones are relatively inexpensive, I advise people to buy spares in case
> of issues vs smartnet on every phone for large installs.  Small installs,
> it's a good peace of mind.
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> Video units are expensive, so you are gambling that nothing is going to go
> wrong.  In 2 years if something does go out on one, you have to buy another
> one.  That's a business decision and I just present the facts to the bean
> counters and let them make it and take the heat :)
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> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 8:37 AM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> I remember when phones first came out, smartnet was expensive for each
> phone and the decision by many was made to leave smart net off the phones
> and use that money to replace phones as needed. Budget issues aside, it
> made sense.
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> What are people doing for equipment of a smaller number? Say, Room Kits?
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> I'd like to offer the products to our clients with a 5 year warranty, so
> no one has to worry about managing inventory until it's probably time to
> replace them. But 5 year warranty is about half the cost of the product.
> Doing math that says these devices will be EOL'ed within about 10 years of
> announcement (very rough guess), two 5 year warranties buys a new product.
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> Thoughts?
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