Well, Context: Starting with 10Gb the optics are more finicky. Part of that price hike include tech support (1) which you will never get from most OEM vendor. PS: Mine is pretty good. Having dealt with a few optic issues lately: . Why that 10km LR won't work with that circuit, oh its a 8.5km + fusion + etc, your cutting it a bit short there bud, replaced them by ER's ( Cost: 3 weeks lag on delivery and ~10h ) . Why is that XFP ain't working in those x450, oh its a power issue :( ( Cost: 6h, delivery was no issue ) But the question remains, does $290 is over charging it for that type of insurance. PS: Approaching those issue logically with less Trumpish hyperbole make more sense, almost as much as the Juniper pricing with their 78%+ discounts off their official pricelist =D ----- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 On 08/18/16 21:59, Ricky Beam wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:05:30 -0400, Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com> wrote:
"As I'm sure you know, Arista is not the only manufacturer that has made this choice. Unlike our competition, we work to make our optics pricing competitive, but we'll never be as low as the "Taiwan specials" that you see floating around. I have another customer that was flashing white label optics that just made the decision to start using Arista labeled optics again because they were tired of bad quality."
I can't count the number of times I've seen this BS from vendors. I'm not buying crap made in a shack out in a rain forest. I'm buying the same f'ing optics from the same f'ing people as the vendor. (Finisar, Infineon, etc.) The only difference between my $10 optic and their $300 optic is the value in an EEPROM and the logo on the label.
(I know from experience, the numbers on the price sheet are inflated so sales can maintain the illusion of "deep customer discounts". As the saying goes, only an idiot pays list price.)