On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 01:04:42 PM Ryan Finnesey wrote: > If we are a new service provider and building out a new > network does the group have any recommendations on the > best way to work with cisco? Do we want to join there > partner program?
Ask a vendor to stand you up a network, and they'll be all too happy to :-). My advice, if you can, use your own in-house design (since it's new, and perhaps small for now) and implementation team. As much as the vendors offer consulting and professional services to ISP's, you really aren't the only customer they have. You won't get the same amount of attention from the vendor that you would put into your own network, whether technical, operations or commercial, despite how many nights they spend in your office. Also, your own deployments (especially in the early days) give you a lot more experience which you can use to call the vendors on when they think they can take you for a ride in the future. From an engineering standpoint, the best networks on the Internet, I believe, are those that refrain from wholesale out-sourcing of network design to vendors. As networks scale, it's not uncommon to out-source deployment, but I strongly believe design should be driven by the ISP, and include the vendor as and when required. Mark.
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