I imagine, and it's just a guess here, that the per-port fee is much less when you have thousands of ports. They still pay a lot, but probably not even 1/4th of the per-port price you pay when you have only 48. Joel -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Mcadams [mailto:jeffm@iglou.com] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 11:02 AM To: usr-tc@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [USR-TC] Software Agreement- RE Also sprach Todd Bertolozzi
Now....from my understanding, and this is a MAJOR point the 3com contracts work a bit differently then what is being presented on this list. Please....someone tell me I'm wrong, but unless they changed their policies without me knowing I believe the contracts cost a little more then what you all are thinking:
The price of the contract is determined based on the total number of ports terminating on 3com gear in your WHOLE network. Now...I don't know about everyone else on this list but just a rough guess of the number of ports we have would be around 40,000 ports on 3com gear.
So....40,000 / 48 ports = 833.33 x 2600 = $2,166,666.00
We don't have that many ports, but you're basically correct. The thing that *really* makes them bad though is that it doesn't distinguish between *types* of ports. For example, a *majority* of our ports are still quad cards, which are no longer supported, but we still have to pay for them as if they were. :/ -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 _______________________________________________ USR-TC mailing list USR-TC@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usr-tc