Hi,
> But you probably should review at least: > - Juniper MX204, MX480 > - Cisco ASR9k > - Huawei NE20, NE40 > - Alcatel 7750SR > Having all of these somewhere in our network, and my heart being with JNPR boxes, I'll say have a look at Huawei offerings. +Dragan On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > On 5 May 2017 at 01:04, c b <bz_siege...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hey, > > > The ASR9k is certainly up to the task and it's one of the few we looked > at > > initially, but the pricing is nowhere near commodity even if we got a > > minimal build. > > What is commodity? Where are you comparing it to which satisfies your > requirements? > > > As far as volume, the initial purchase for this round of budget will be > an > > HA pair. If the solution works well, we have potential to replace 12 or > so > > throughout FY17, maybe into FY18. > > Yeah sales droids likely won't be interested in 2 at all. But if you > commit on those 12, even if you'll order them separately. I think > that's something sales droid will care about, and you'll have > negotiation leverage as you can keep bouncing between several vendors > seeing who gets your business. > You should really expect at least 70% discount on 12 units, 80% would > be good. Under 70% would be walk out the room. > > -- > ++ytti >