Oli, It didn’t require a lot of work. My Cisco team keeps me informed of the specials/promos, and I try to align my purchasing with the promos, and if possible, Cisco’s end-of-year/quarter. At no time did I need to pull out a bat and beat on them… :)
In my case, it was the refresh of about 275 AP’s (1142/1252) for 3700-series, and the purchase of about 40 switches. A big chunk of the discount came from the trade-in credit. Jeff From: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, October 16, 2015 at 1:25 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Multi Vendor environments in WiFi space Jeff How did you achieve that discount, was it a significant bulk order? We tend to buy large amounts of switches and APs separately, if we can save a lot of money buying them together that would be nice! Oli On 15 October 2015 at 19:15, Jeffrey D. Sessler <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I think it's always wise to look at other vendors when you're about to replace that amount of equipment, but unless you are unhappy, it's unlikely that the alternative will come out less expensive i.e. hardware purchase, plus learning/supporting another vendor. If you're happy, work with your incumbent vendor to see what they'll do to keep you in the family. For Cisco, right now there is a deal where you can get substantial additional discounts on wireless if it's paired with switching (which also gets extra discounts), and these stack on top of the discount you get normally. Let's just say that 70%-ish off is not difficult. I took advantage of the discount last year and the cost for a 3702i was pretty amazing. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Oliver, Jeff Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 9:42 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Multi Vendor environments in WiFi space All, This is probably an old topic, but I have not seen anything in a while on it. At present we are a Cisco shop with regard to our wireless deployment, and we are looking at changing out a substantial number (250) of our AP's (1131 to 3702). These AP's represent about 30% of our deployment so is a substantial investment, and as such our CIO has asked us to look at other solutions. I am wondering if any of you are running multi vendor environments and if so, what the UX is like? What are the toolsets like regarding management of two disparate systems? Cheers, Jeff --- Jeffrey L. Oliver Sr. Network Analyst Information Technology Services The University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4 Tel: 403.329.5162 Mob: 403.315.4461 Fax: 403.382.7108 URI: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- Oliver Elliott Senior Network Specialist IT Services University of Bristol e: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> t: 0117 39 (41131) ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
