On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, at 08:13, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 09:09, Radu-Adrian Feurdean > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, at 16:51, Tom Hill wrote: > > > No-one has mentioned it yet, so for completeness big C have the ASR 9901 > > > > Weren't we talking about "decently priced" ? > > ASR9901 and MX204 being wildly differently priced is market > inefficiency. It's difficult for me to see, how CSCO could justify the > premium for any volume order. Either sell at market or lose sale.
The 2 boxes not having exactly the same port count and features(9901 can do - or is suppose to be able to do - subscriber stuff - IPoE,PTA,LAC), this explains the difference. Add the fact that Cisco has customers that buy "Cisco and nothing else". And not everybody buys "enough" in order to get acceptable volume discounts. > Also it will never run eXR. I have no information, but I think it's > reasonable to suspect the OS not being sold may receive decreasing > amount of NRE. I wouldn't certainly spend my time writing code for > product I'm not selling. Agreed.
