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Re: Arista unqualified SFP
From: Fredrik Korsbäck <hugge () nordu net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:01:57 +0200
On 18/08/16 14:45, Mark Tinka wrote:
On 18/Aug/16 14:42, Nick Hilliard wrote:It is always better to clarify this sort of thing with the account management team before purchasing, and preferably have it in email or writing. After that, the best approach is to ask support and/or account management nicely rather than "bitching and moaning" as someone else suggested - diplomacy is usually a better long term basis for having a good relationship with your vendor. Often it's useful to point out discussions like this which indicate that it's been enabled for other people.+1. We politely said to Arista, "We like your box, but we're afraid that if we can't use our existing optics, we'd all miss out on a good opportunity working together". That did the job. Mark.
I think someone from Arista said... "We are never going to lose an affair due to not supporting 3-d party optics, but we will try to convince the customer to buy our stuff, since that's what we do, we sell stuff". In these cheap arista switches, filling them with optics (if the optics is from ANET themselves) is usually the same cost as buying like five switches, so of course they want a share of that and they will try to convince you that 3rd party optics will make the switch go up in flames etc etc. So its kinda easy... just present three choices. 1. Arista Switch + Arista Optics (at the same price as your favourite 3rd party vendor) 2. Arista Switch + 3rd party optics 3. No Arista switch. I know which one you are gonna get. -- hugge
Current thread:
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP, (continued)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Mike Hammett (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Denys Fedoryshchenko (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Nick Hilliard (Aug 18)
- RE: Arista unqualified SFP Ryan DiRocco (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Ryan, Spencer (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Mark Tinka (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Tim Jackson (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Mark Tinka (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Nick Hilliard (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Mark Tinka (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Fredrik Korsbäck (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Ethan (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Stanislaw (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP John A. Kilpatrick (Aug 20)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Tim Jackson (Aug 20)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Ricky Beam (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Eric Kuhnke (Aug 18)
- RE: Arista unqualified SFP Ryan DiRocco (Aug 19)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Alain Hebert (Aug 19)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Eric Kuhnke (Aug 19)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Denys Fedoryshchenko (Aug 18)