<div dir="auto">Rack space is the premium with me. A 7280R2K-48C6 gives me 48x10G plus 6x40/100G ports in 1U with 2 million routes vs 7U for an MLX-8.<div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 11:49 Aaron <<a href="mailto:aaron@wholesaleinternet.net">aaron@wholesaleinternet.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just got quotes for an Arista 7280R (48x 10Gbit and 6x 100Gbit) and an <br>
SLX9640. Adding a port license to the 9640 to go to 8x 100G ports the <br>
Arista quote for just the base box (no service, optics, etc.) was 251% <br>
higher.<br>
<br>
Maybe I have the wrong sales rep at Arista and the right one at Extreme?<br>
<br>
Aaron<br>
<br>
<br>
On 3/12/2019 1:39 PM, Richard Laager wrote:<br>
> On 3/12/19 1:19 PM, Aaron wrote:<br>
>> We replaced our Extreme gear with Brocade several years ago. We're<br>
>> getting ready to swap out some MLXes' with SLXs'. We've looked at<br>
>> Arista hard but just can't seem to justify the 3x price premium.<br>
> Unless Extreme has massively dropped the price or Arista has massively<br>
> increased their prices, there's no reason that equivalent Arista gear<br>
> should be 3x the price of an SLX, and that doesn't match up with my<br>
> experience.<br>
><br>
> I ended up with the Arista 7280SR (48-ports of 10G, 6 ports of<br>
> short-range 100G in a 1RU fixed configuration) and it's been working well.<br>
><br>
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