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