I know we all have a little bit of nerd in us, and that nerd says "Why not build this solution from OpenSource? You are a wuss if you buy one" Well, if this guy is looking for a solution for a corporation that will fullfill the needs of a large number of users, then buying a Nortel solution instead of building one probably wouldn't be such a bad idea. If you have a rinky-dink network, and you want to set up vpn tunnels to a few users who really don't care when it goes down, then its not a big problem. But if you have hundereds of users who are using this VPN for functionality, and connectivity in a situation where loss of either hinders their ability to do work and ultimately costs the company money, then it would be better to outsource this solution to a vendor so when there is an outage that vendor deals with it by contract, and if he/she didn't you'd have them by the short curlys. Besides, a network to that scale would require a ton of support, which would require hiring on new people, where in the long run that might be more expensive than outsourcing the whole project. But that is just something to think about.
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I know we all have a little bit of nerd in us, and that nerd says "Why not build this solution from OpenSource? You are a wuss if you buy one" Well, if this guy is looking for a solution for a corporation that will fullfill the needs of a large number of users, then buying a Nortel solution instead of building one probably wouldn't be such a bad idea. If you have a rinky-dink network, and you want to set up vpn tunnels to a few users who really don't care when it goes down, then its not a big problem. But if you have hundereds of users who are using this VPN for functionality, and connectivity in a situation where loss of either hinders their ability to do work and ultimately costs the company money, then it would be better to outsource this solution to a vendor so when there is an outage that vendor deals with it by contract, and if he/she didn't you'd have them by the short curlys. Besides, a network to that scale would require a ton of support, which would require hiring on new people, where in the long run that might be more expensive than outsourcing the whole project. But that is just something to think about.