I agree. Replacing the chassis and getting official Cisco support would be my 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice. Unfortunately, as cheap as the E-Chassis might appear, four of them are too expensive given the current business challenges. Failing that, getting 3rd party support is about my only other choice. The other consideration is that in the next 18-24 months there is a strong chance we would be downsizing our datacenter footprint, and investing new capital in the large chassis is not something I think would be accepted right now.
---- Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139 > -----Original Message----- > From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net > [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Justin > M. Streiner > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:08 AM > To: 'cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net' > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Third-Party support providers for 650x switches ??? > > Matthew Huff wrote: > > > Unfortunately, the entire support is tied to the chassis, so support for > > the line cards, sup engine, etc will become EOS without the chassis > > under support. > > The question still remains as to what you are looking for a third party to > do for you in this situation. If vendor support is important to you, it > might be worth getting an E chassis (not that expensive) and taking the > outage to replace the chassis. It just sounds like you're at risk of > painting yourself into a corner by not doing that. > > jms
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