Any sign of supply chain returning to normal?

Fri Apr 22 22:34:42 UTC 2022

There's some queue-jumping happening for other reasons -
medical/hospital a significant portion of that - but even there I'm
hearing 6+ months for some switch hardware and Cisco APs are pretty
uniformly "if you didn't order before March, you won't see them for
over a year".

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 6:29 PM nanog at jima.us <nanog at jima.us> wrote:
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> Anecdotally, I had a pair of Nexus 93180s that I ordered in May 2021 show up in February 2022, so 9 months. The estimated ship date got punted several times (probably due to being preempted by folks employing the approach Laura outlined ;-) ).
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> I haven't ordered anything since then, but I understand that 4-8 months isn't unexpected, still.
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> - Jima
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> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Drew Weaver
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022 07:24
> To: 'nanog at nanog.org' <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Any sign of supply chain returning to normal?
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> I'm not sure if this is the right place for this discussion but I can't think of anywhere better to ask.
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> Has anyone seen any progress whatsoever on supply chain issues with networking hardware?
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> I've noticed that primary market lead times have been increasing and at the same time secondary market pricing has also been going higher at the same time, still.
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> What have you seen?
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