The pre-sales engineer's response was:
The 4000 series is not a "backbone" switch according to Cisco...
-Brad
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From: "nigel samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brad Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cisco Group Study"
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Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Pre-sales People
> That does sound strange, I did work as a pre -sales guy for a while. I
> basically knew most customers don't want to spend lots of cash on
equipment,
> but it was important to think about the future growth. Of course some
> customers were max out on their network, so tossing money at the problem
> was necessary. Pre-sales are sometimes told to push certain equipment
> depending on vendor discounts, incentives etc.
>
> In that case it does sound strange 2 -6000's to replace one 8 port switch.
> Is it possible the 8 port switch was acting as a backbone to lot of
servers
> down stream? Usually the Pre-sales engineer's proposal will give a reason
> for the recommendation. If they are think about the future you can always
> add another later??
>
> Nigel
>
> Brad Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 8jjsaq$rjs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8jjsaq$rjs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi! Does anyone else work with a pre-sales engineer that over quotes
bids
> > (ie: suggests 16 megs of flash for an IOS that uses only 4-5 megs of
> space)?
> > We have a customer that has an 8-port intel switch. This guy suggested
> (2)
> > Catalyst 6000s to replace this single Intel switch. Needless to say the
> > customer was a little shocked when he saw the cost. We were replacing
an
> > 8-port intel switch with about 96 ports total!!!
> >
> > Are all pre-sales engineers like this? Im just curious. I havent done
> much
> > pre-sales work as I enjoy the post-sales work quite a bit more.
> >
> > any input is appreciated.
> >
> > thanks!
> > -Brad
> > p.s. if anyone needs a 8540MSR to replace your 25xx router, let me
know!!!
> > lol
> >
> >
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