Looking to purchase an ASR1001-x, the 10gb licenses, and smartnet. for under 15k CAD. I've gone through some Cisco partners looking for quotes and the licensing is killer.
While the unit price was fine ($8200) the licensing to enable the 10Gb ports, support for the chassis, for the ip base license and for the support on the 10Gb port license totaled $20,000! This is madness.
How can Cisco even offer a 2.5Gb default licensed option but not have the 10Gb ports enabled. Ridiculous.
Anyone have any advice on buying grey / refurb? I've been on ebay and just random places on the internet and they all sell the router for about the same price as I was getting from the Cisco partners so I don't see the advantage.
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