Re: Router Suggestions

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Jun 16, 2020, at 12:37 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 16/Jun/20 08:32, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
>
> > Why pay someone else for having a cold spare ready for next day
> > replacement when you can have it yourself? Having a lab router to test
> > config before rollout has really been a life saver.
>
> Depends on network size. You can have multiple failures happening in the
> same week, and you may not necessarily have all the spares to cover the
> replacements at the same time, in all the locations.

Covering them all under vendor contract doesn’t necessarily guarantee that
the vendor does, either. In general, if you can cover 10% of your hardware
failing in the same 3-day period, you’re probably not going to do much better
with vendor support.

Of course, YMMV.

Owen