[rbak-nsp] SE600 End of life status

[Phil Green]

Wojciech, 

Hardware is a commodity. There are billions of dollars worth of new, like-new and pre-owned hardware available from the OEMs and hundreds of credible independent suppliers globally. 

Did you think the replacement cards you get from OEM RMAs are new? ;-)

Do a sh platform, sh diag etc. on your Cisco boxes and you will see 'RMA History' related fields. OEMs re-cycle returned 'failed' hardware and ship them out as replacements to other customers. Every time this is done, the RMA History bits are incremented by 1. This is repeated up to 4 to 5 times per component.


------------------ show platform ------------------

 2821 Network IO Interrupt Throttling:
 throttle count=377079608, timer count=1770270
 throttle counts= 377079548 58 2 0 0
 active=0, configured=1
 netint usec=20000, netint mask usec=1000
 real netint usec=4000, real netint mask usec=200
 IO Mask is F30F
 Per Slot Intr Mask is F30F

2821 Backplane EEPROM:
        PCB Serial Number        : BEEFCAFE
        Hardware Revision        : 1.0
        Top Assy. Part Number    : 800-26921-03
        Board Revision           : A0
        Deviation Number         : 0
        Fab Version              : 03
        RMA Test History         : 00
        RMA Number               : 0-0-0-0  <<<<<<
        RMA History              : 00       <<<<<<

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Best 
Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wojciech Wrona" <w0jtas at w0jtas.com>
To: redback-nsp at puck.nether.net
Sent: Thursday, 27 July, 2017 16:39:38
Subject: Re: [rbak-nsp] SE600 End of life status



On 2017-07-25 14:29, Phil Green wrote: 

BQ_BEGIN
Jim, 

PS. Multiven provides _lifetime_ hardware and software maintenance service for all IP networking equipment from all OEMs e.g. redback, cisco, juniper etc. 

Hence you no longer need to panic into an unnecessary and expensive hardware refresh nor leave your network vulnerable to cyberattacks because of lack of software maintenance support coverage. 




But still, if Ericsson will not provide any new software update, no 
Multiven will be able to provide it too... 

Marcin 

BQ_END


And what about hardware then? If end of life means what it suppose to 
mean then no new hardware will be available on the market. So any new 
needed line cards or i case of any failures we're dependent only on 
second hand market :( How can Multiven provide hardware support when no 
new hardware is manufactured ? 

PS. Is this confirmed information ? I can't find it on ericsson web page 
nor i can understand it becouse it is quite mature platform with good 
views for many next years. 

Best regads, 
-- 
Wojciech Wrona 


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