> On 5 Mar 2025, at 08:17, Brandon Butterworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04/03/2025 21:52:42, "Ted Pelas Johansson via cisco-nsp" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Look at model 7280SR3K-48YC8A, or if you don't need as many ports: >> 7280SR3K-40YC6. > > I've not seen a K version of the cut down -40
My bad, you're correct, the 40 version is only non-K. >> The downside with Arista, at this point, is that they lack a pay as you grow >> (PayG) model, which is a must for an SP. > > That is where I left Cisco, all the licensing overhead that was > supposed to make it more affordable got used to raise the > price of a restricted version, and put unlocking the rest beyond > sense. By the time you need to grow it is cheaper to buy a newer > device than pay to unlock an old device approaching EOL. You've > literally paid for the hardware you are not allowed to use so > it's never felt right either. > > Maybe it makes sense for someone growing fast. > > brandon For us PayG has made the most sense, TCO-wise, but everyone is different ofc. This has been true for my last two employments over 13 years. /Ted _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
