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Cisco Pricing Undercut By $100M In Big Cal State University Network Project
alphadogg writes "The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network revealed earlier this week was based on an identical number of switches and routers in various configurations. CSU allowed Network World to review spreadsheets calculating the eight-year total cost of ownership of each of the five bidders for the project. 'Everybody had to comply with this spreadsheet,' said CSU's director of cyberinfrastructure. 'Alcatel-Lucent won the project with a bid of $22 million. Cisco was the high bidder with a cost just under $123 million. Not only was Cisco's bid more than five-and-a-half times that of Alcatel-Lucent's, it was three times that of the next highest bidder: HP, at $41 million.'"
I bet Belkin could do the job for a cool 1 million. Of course it wouldn't work, but look at the savings.
I figured the difference was in Monster cables.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
What was the Huawei bid?
Only a fool would do an important networking job without monster cables. Do you know how much packet fidelity you can lose if stray RF gets into your fiber?
Actually, Forth kind of sucks. I prefer LISP.
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