On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Joel Snyder wrote: >> Word I keep running across is that Cisco is basically out of everything >> that matters: > > I have heard the same thing, but only in regard to ASA hardware. A Cisco > competitor sent me an email last week saying that they had won a big deal in > part because Cisco screwed the pooch by being unable to provide gear in a > timely manner. Another, different, firewall competitor sent me a note three > days ago wondering why no one in the tech press was covering the ASA > shortage. Finally, a customer told me last night that they were trying to > buy an ASA but the seller (used) raised the price by 25% because of a > shortage of used Cisco firewalls.
We've actually cancelled orders with cisco for 4948s(multiple) (90 day lead time) and replaced them with another vendors switch (<2 week lead time). We've had similar long lead times quoted on the ASA's as well. Something like 20-70 business days. I thought to myself, dang wish I could estimate my delivery time like that. Your code will be ready sometime in the next 1-3 months :) You can hope for a month, but figure on 3 .... -Patrick -- Patrick Muldoon Network/Software Engineer INOC (http://www.inoc.net) PGPKEY (http://www.inoc.net/~doon) Key ID: 0x370D752C Fix a computer and it'll break tomorrow. Teach its owner to fix it and it'll break in some way you've never seen before. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
