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Re: Force10 Gear - Opinions

  • From: Jo Rhett
  • Date: Thu Sep 04 12:41:02 2008
On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:47 AM, Paul Wall wrote:
Some food for thought, comparing apples to apples...

FORCE 10
*********************
CH-E300-BNA8-L $35,000.00
E300 110V AC Terascale Chassis Bundle: 6-slot E300 chassis
with 400 Gb backplane, fan subsystem, 3 AC Power Supplies
(CC-E300-1200W-AC) 1 Route Processor Module (EF3), 2
Switch Fabric Modules
LC-EF3-1GE-24P $30,000.00
E300 Terascale 24-port Gigabit Ethernet line card - SFP optics
required (series EF3)
CC-E300-1200W-AC $4,000.00 E300 1200W/800W AC Power Supply
CC-E-SFM3 $12,500.00 E-Series Switch Fabric Module
LC-EF3-RPM $30,000.00E300 Terascale Route processor module (series EF3)
** BASIC CONFIG WITH 24 GIG-E (SFP PORTS): $65000.00 (USD) **

You added a third SFM3 which has no place to go in this chassis. So $52,500 versus $62,240 for the Cisco.

Please realize that the above is list vs. list.  Cisco 6500 series
hardware is extremely popular in the secondary market, with discounts
of 80% or greater on linecards, etc common, furthering the argument
that Cisco is the cheaper of the two solutions.


Then you need to add recertify cost, which isn't cheap. And given that you can purchase Force10 stuff *NEW* at 60% discount, you're pitting new against used for similar prices.

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Jo Rhett
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