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It's more about forecasts and assurances. If you're financing the network that is currently doing X traffic, but expect it to grow by quite a bit soon, you're g
by RyanZAG 8y ago
It's more about forecasts and assurances. If you're financing the network that is currently doing X traffic, but expect it to grow by quite a bit soon, you're going to ask "is this solution going to cover everything?"
The Cisco guy is going to sure 'Sure! We can cover everything!'
The OSS off the shelf guy is going to ask 'Well that depends on the growth.'
At that point, most of the businesses just throw some money at Cisco so they don't have to worry about anything.
- dozzie 8y ago> The OSS off the shelf guy is going to ask 'Well that depends on the growth.' Though this "depends" is a quite high bar in reality. I know a regional internet provider that runs purely on software routers on commodity x86_64 servers. You need to be a quite large company (or operate in a very specific domain) to ever hit this level of traffic.
- dsign 8y agoThe point is that the OSS off the shell guy is far inferior as a peddler than the Cisco guy... hmm.... I need to redo that sales presentation tomorrow....