RE: Papers/analysis on network equipment pricing since pandemic/banning foreign competition

2022-07-19 Thread Adam Thompson
' Subject: RE: Papers/analysis on network equipment pricing since pandemic/banning foreign competition Okay so I suppose how many years are we allocating mentally for them to take any action? From: Mel Beckman mailto:m...@beckman.org>> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2022 8:37 PM To: Forrest Chr

RE: Papers/analysis on network equipment pricing since pandemic/banning foreign competition

2022-07-18 Thread Drew Weaver
Okay so I suppose how many years are we allocating mentally for them to take any action? From: Mel Beckman Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2022 8:37 PM To: Forrest Christian (List Account) Cc: Drew Weaver ; nanog list Subject: Re: Papers/analysis on network equipment pricing since pandemic

Re: Papers/analysis on network equipment pricing since pandemic/banning foreign competition

2022-07-16 Thread Mel Beckman
Drew, The YouTube channel Asianometry has some good insights into the underlying supply chain problems: https://youtu.be/YJrOuBkYCMQ Deposits that the issue isn’t with leading as chips, as you might think, but with so-called “trailing edge“ chips: microprocessors and support circuits that

Re: Papers/analysis on network equipment pricing since pandemic/banning foreign competition

2022-07-16 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
The underlying problem is silicon Fab capacity. It has nothing to do with the actual manufacturing of the products once all the components arrive. If you don't have components for your product, a new order for components will take a year to arrive just because the factories that turn raw