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Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 13:22:28 -0500
On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 07:44:45 -0800, Leo Bicknell said:
But I think the question others are trying to ask is a different hyptothetical. Say there are two vendors, of of which makes perfectly good edge routers and core routers. What are the pros to buying all of the edge from one, and all of the core from the other?
The *original* question, which seems to have gotten lost, was: Say you're doing business in 100 countries, with some stated level of possible autonomy for each business unit. Is it better for upper corporate to say "all 100 national business units will use vendor A for edge devices and vendor B for routing", or "all 100 business units shall choose, based on local conditions such as vendor support, a standard set of vendors for their operations"? Stated differently, "Which causes more trouble - a mix of Vendor A in Denmark talking to Vendor B in Finland, or corporate mandating the use of Vendor Q even if Q doesn't have a support office in Kazakhstan while vendor F has an office in the building next door"?
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- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 26)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Leo Bicknell (Dec 27)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Chris Grundemann (Dec 28)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Christopher Morrow (Dec 28)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Randy Bush (Dec 28)
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- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Chris Grundemann (Dec 29)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Randy Bush (Dec 29)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Chris Grundemann (Dec 28)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Leo Bicknell (Dec 29)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 29)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Leo Bicknell (Dec 29)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization joel jaeggli (Dec 29)
- Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization Chad Dailey (Dec 29)