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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 aheb...@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....@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.) >