Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

Tue Jan 11 01:17:39 UTC 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aECSsfd4Wk

Watch this video, now, I know that it is essentially advertisement from 
brocade but the guy from ams-ix says something very interesting - "For 
us it is important to have a board-level relationship with the vendor, 
no matter who it is". So in the end this might be a factor in deciding 
which equipment to buy - whether your company will be able to have a 
higher-level relationship with your vendor so that you can expect 
appropriate treatment in case of emergency. With bigger company this 
would be harder, though I think the position "account manager" is 
essential this, whereas with smaller companies it is easier to build 
such a relationship