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Which is why I'm so annoyed that my employer (which happens to be the largest employer in my entire state) mandates a vendor that costs 6x as much and whose pro
by dmd 4y ago
Which is why I'm so annoyed that my employer (which happens to be the largest employer in my entire state) mandates a vendor that costs 6x as much and whose products fail much more often.
- kevin_nisbet 4y agoI'm really out of the game these days so don't know the state of different options, but to be fair, a decade ago I had a team member try and cheap out on modules and it caused a fairly decent mess. Lots of failures, but not just outright failures, but problems where the link would mostly work, but through a bunch of fiber taps and bypass modules produced a high error rates when installed. So I'm not saying it's right, but I can at least understand where a mandate like that might come from, if perhaps outdated compared to the current state of the industry.
- Spooky23 4y agoThe details matter. Depending on how you contract for support, etc. 6x on optics may be the logical choice as compared to being in some situation where the vendor won’t fix stuff until you verify that it’s broken with their OEM parts. If you’re the largest employer in the state, there may be some personal implications to a CIO telling a major OEM to f-off.