Another example - take a box like the SRX100 - both the high and low memory versions have 1G of onboard memory (surface mount, no DIMMS), but the low mem version only has 512MB active with a license key unlocking the rest. The exact same bit of tin - three quarters of the price.
I guess from the manufacturing side of things, there is one less model to have to spec and build which must save a small fortune. I suspect manufacturing cost of almost any box these days is in the sub 5% of actual resale - the rest is all "value" ; ) On 13/04/2011, at 3:05 AM, joe mcguckin wrote: > Think for a second what this means about the manufacturing cost of a 10G port > if they can literally give 2 away. And then think about the profit margin > on said ports when Juniper sells them for what? 6k or 7k each? > > > Joe McGuckin > ViaNet Communications > > [email protected] > 650-207-0372 cell > 650-213-1302 office > 650-969-2124 fax > > > > On Apr 12, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:05:25 -0700 (PDT) >>> From: Derick Winkworth <[email protected]> >>> Sender: [email protected] >>> >>> Argh! Please tell me this is a joke! >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: David Ball <[email protected]> >>> To: Juniper-Nsp <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 9:46:45 AM >>> Subject: [j-nsp] MX80 - restricted bundles and disabled 10G ports. >>> >>> A question almost too obvious to ask, but can someone with one of >>> the restricted MX80 bundles (which disables 2 of the 10G ports) >>> confirm that ports 0/0/0 and 0/0/1 are the ones left enabled? I don't >>> have a restricted one yet, and am trying to finish a standards doc. >>> Thanks....just trying to avoid assumptions here. <g> >>> >>> David >>> _______________________________________________ >>> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >>> _______________________________________________ >>> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >> >> Oh, it most certainly is a joke! A bad one. >> >> But that does not make it less real. Reminds me of 20 or 25 years ago >> when Digital came out with a cheap micro-VAX system that was identical >> to a much more expensive system with the exception of the epoxy with >> which they filled the expansion slots. The cost of a replacement Q-Bus >> backplane was far below the difference between the two systems, so guess >> what everyone was doing! That joke turned out to be on DEC. >> -- >> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer >> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) >> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) >> E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 >> Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
