"Scherting, Mark" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday (5/14) I had a couple of sales reps in my office talking up the
> latest Tivoli Switch Analyzer offering.  Supposedly it was released
> yesterday and now supports multiple VLANs and sub-nets on one switch.  The
> prce tag is rather $tunning.
>
> The info was rather sketchy so I'm wondering if anyone on the list can shed
> more light on what could be a useful product.  I'd at least like to see some
> real product documentation and maybe some official announcement of release
> or general availability.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark Scherting
> State of Montana
> Information Technology Services Division
>
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You are right, the price it is QUITE STUNNING.   They were here at Princeton U.
as sales pitch.   The basic price wasn't too bad but the cost per switch port
was insane considering we have thousands of ports.

We just couldn't understand how an add on to Netview would cost more than twice
its' cost, not to mention the maintenance costs on it.

We just told them "Thanks for coming" and showed them where the door was at.


Jeff Fitzwater
OIT Systems & Networking
Princeton University


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