Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))

alex@relcom.eu.net writes:

and WHY have I to pay 3,500$ for the 32Mb ram if this RAM costs 600$ on the free market???).

Dunno for sure about the 4xxx, but the 7xxx use standard SIMMs, and Cisco has even qualified some manufacturers' parts. Oddly enough, they have also *disqualified* some parts that you'd think were exactly the same. I don't know the details there. The sales types obviously don't like to talk about it, but you really *can* get $12k of 7500 memory for $800. And they'll even agree that it works, if you talk to the right cisco folks. /a