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To: ajtj99 who wrote (4030)	10/2/2002 3:31:39 AM
From: WhatsUpWithThat	Read Replies (1) of 10157

Thanks for that post. I've been trying to stay out of this, but it's nice to see some reason. 1 - I'd like to see numbers backing up assertions I've seen in several places of the Chinese product being manufactured at 1/10 the cost of Cisco's same product, same quality, same reliability, same specs 2 - the advantage China has is cheap manufacturing and materials costs (those that can be made in country only, of course), yet Cisco as I recall is a model of outsourcing manufacturing (?) and in any case certainly could have their product made in those same cheap factories to get much of the same advantage 3 - brand cache (accent on that last "e" ;-) is very true for this gear; is the NASDAQ about to start running its network on the very cheapest gear it can get from a new-to-North America provider? That's foolish savings. Even in my business, just somewhat smaller than the big boys <gg>, I'll pay for a tier 1 for my main network and go to some tier 2/3 only for non-critical areas I'm not saying Cisco doesn't face competition, I'm only saying it's silly to hear claims they're dead meat. Cheers WUWT

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