[j-nsp] MX80 - restricted bundles and disabled 10G ports.

[Joe@via.net]

True, but I think this demonstrates that we need more than 2.5 vendors in this market.


On Apr 12, 2011, at 15:26, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:05:31AM -0700, joe mcguckin wrote:
>> Think for a second what this means about the manufacturing cost of a 
>> 10G port if they can literally give 2 away. And then think about the 
>> profit margin on said ports when Juniper sells them for what? 6k or 7k 
>> each?
> 
> If you ever thought that COGS had *anything* to do with the price that 
> any vendor charges for a router, you were seriously mistaken. At least 
> this method allows you to start out buying a smaller router, and upgrade 
> later without doing a total hardware swap.
> 
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