I have been informed that the ASA Shortage is due to a chipset change on all ASA products. and that availability is pushed back until end of June, at least for me, its June.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Patrick Muldoon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -- James _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
