Taking the chance from Nick's answer and bringing into the talk various old threads with 3rd party optics, i don't know if anyone has read the following from http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/prod_warranty09186a00800b5594.html
> > Third Party Components Support > > The Cisco guideline for support and warranty services for the use of > third-party memory, cables, gigabit interface controllers (GBICs), filters, > or other non-Cisco components is as follows: > > * When a customer reports a product fault or defect and Cisco believes the > fault or defect can be traced to the use of third-party memory products, > cables, GBIC's, filters, or other non-Cisco components by a customer or > reseller, then, at Cisco's discretion, Cisco may withhold support under > warranty or a Cisco support program such as SMARTnet™ service. > > * When a product fault or defect occurs in the network, and Cisco concludes > that the fault or defect is not attributable to the use of third-party > memory, cables, GBICs, filters, or other non-Cisco components installed by a > customer or reseller, Cisco will continue to provide support for the affected > product under warranty or covered by a Cisco support program. > > The nature of the defect or error is the key to determining Cisco support > obligations. > > Cisco also reserves the right to charge the customer per then current time > and material rates for services provided to the customer when Cisco > determines, after having provided such services, that the root cause of the > defective product was caused by a third party vendor supplied product. > Can't remember the extra charging in the past. -- Tassos Nick Hilliard wrote on 30/8/2013 02:03: > On 29/08/2013 23:51, CiscoNSP List wrote: >> We should be looking at either a pair of asr1001's (With 16G memory), or >> a single ASR1006 with dual RP2's etc? > 2xASR1001 should be fine if you're ok about the low port density. You will > be awestruck at the cost of an ASR1006 with dual RP2. Also, get your RAM > from ebay because Cisco's ASR1K RAM pricing is stupid. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
