Cisco Pricing Undercut By $100M In Big Cal State University Network Project 220
alphadogg writes "The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network revealed earlier this week was based on an identical number of switches and routers in various configurations. CSU allowed Network World to review spreadsheets calculating the eight-year total cost of ownership of each of the five bidders for the project. 'Everybody had to comply with this spreadsheet,' said CSU's director of cyberinfrastructure. 'Alcatel-Lucent won the project with a bid of $22 million. Cisco was the high bidder with a cost just under $123 million. Not only was Cisco's bid more than five-and-a-half times that of Alcatel-Lucent's, it was three times that of the next highest bidder: HP, at $41 million.'"
What was Belkin offering just curious (Score:4, Funny)
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Huawei (Score:5, Funny)
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Only a fool would do an important networking job without monster cables. Do you know how much packet fidelity you can lose if stray RF gets into your fiber?
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Actually, Forth kind of sucks. I prefer LISP.
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I live in Seattle, you insensitive clod!
Re:Huawei (Score:4, Funny)
For some reason they said they would do it for free if the university started doing military research