$47,000 Oops

[BoredSysAdmin]

So at the office I am expecting a warranty Cisco asa firewall replacement.
Today I get and to my surprise I get it and a "free gift" on the side:
a $47k worth Cisco nexus module - very similar to this one: https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Cisco-Nexus-7000-Series-32-Port-10-Gigabit-Ethernet-Module-with-XL-Option/2816432.aspx

The funny thing is it was designed to go to Yahoo datacenter

Being a good samaritan (or too afraid of embezzlement charges - pick one) I got in touch with shipper and they promptly sent me a prepaid shipping label to send to yahoo...

Yes, I could just keep quiet about it and sit on it for a year or two, but the very last thing our company needs is any bad rep

 

[j_garcia]

I think they'd miss that and track it down OR blame it on the UPS guy.

My daughter's fiance supports that data center out of Virginia.

 

[OKLAGMCRUISER]

dang...the HT purchases one could have for that...lol....j/k... Glad you did the right thing!

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I think they'd miss that and track it down OR blame it on the UPS guy.

My daughter's fiance supports that data center out of Virginia.

that one was for one in quincy,wa

 

[j_garcia]

that one was for one in quincy,wa

OK, then they made a BIG mistake.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

dang...the HT purchases one could have for that...lol....j/k... Glad you did the right thing!

Not exactly your typical ebay item I gather... this is not even a complete product, but a single module... I am afraid to ask how much fully stocked product goes for...
Who would the buyer for one without support contact ? probably no one
Products like these are critical arteries of IT. Not many would take a chance on one from ebay

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Story did NOT end there. Today I get misrouted another box.. that one was supposed to go to Verizon in CA
Told the shipper they need to place me on their payroll

 

[haraldo]

so it's just really a 32 port Ethernet switch, this is really bleeding edge in the way that the 10Gb Ethernet switches are way-way expensive, like 100 times the price of a 1Gb switch, but for a serious server backbone like in yahoo they probably need the 10Gb backbone ....


If you want it fast, I guess it's as fast as it gets, fibrechannel goes up to 3200MB/s, which I believe is 3.1Gb/s .....

Bleeding edge performance has never been cheap

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

so it's just really a 32 port Ethernet switch, this is really bleeding edge in the way that the 10Gb Ethernet switches are way-way expensive, like 100 times the price of a 1Gb switch, but for a serious server backbone like in yahoo they probably need the 10Gb backbone ....


If you want it fast, I guess it's as fast as it gets, fibrechannel goes up to 3200MB/s, which I believe is 3.1Gb/s .....

Bleeding edge performance has never been cheap

Haraldo, even thou are basically correct, it is 32 port network switch, BUT at the same time calling this product "just a network switch" is same as calling a Bugatti Veyron just a car with 4 wheels (just a tad expensive since it's new)
Modules like one I got by accident are made to work in backend enclosures like this one - Cisco Nexus 7700 18-Slot Switch - Cisco

10Gbs switches are no longer that [terribly] expensive - HP ProCurve 6600 -24G J9265A#ABA Managed 10 Gigabit Modular Switch - Newegg.com
yes, not cheap, but at least $30k less - not pocket change

Speaking of data throughput - it supports SFP+ so Fiberchannel is not only choice, 10Gbis ethernet is quite real and it's speed is (shockingly) 10Gbs (so close to it in Sonet/atm)
10-gigabit Ethernet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[haraldo]

Haraldo, even thou are basically correct, it is 32 port network switch, BUT at the same time calling this product "just a network switch" is same as calling a Bugatti Veyron just a car with 4 wheels (just a tad expensive since it's new)
Modules like one I got by accident are made to work in backend enclosures like this one - Cisco Nexus 7700 18-Slot Switch - Cisco

10Gbs switches are no longer that [terribly] expensive - HP ProCurve 6600 -24G J9265A#ABA Managed 10 Gigabit Modular Switch - Newegg.com
yes, not cheap, but at least $30k less - not pocket change

Speaking of data throughput - it supports SFP+ so Fiberchannel is not only choice, 10Gbis ethernet is quite real and it's speed is (shockingly) 10Gbs (so close to it in Sonet/atm)
10-gigabit Ethernet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I see your point and it's a quite good point, although.... I don't fullhartedly agree....
A Bugatty Veyron will never go out of style and will always be something very special
hi-end computer and network hardware will be rubbish in some years, in 10 years this switch will have a value of zero, and will be superseeded by muvh better equipment

I'm in this business myself too and I can like it or not, but it's just a fact that it's a significant cost to employ bleeding edge equipment

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I'm in this business myself too and I can like it or not, but it's just a fact that it's a significant cost to employ bleeding edge equipment

No doubt about that. In fact 5 years ago or so fat chance finding 10gbis switch for $13k.
That would be a small miracle or fallen from back the truck at that price.

 

[j_garcia]

How about a $400K oops?

UPS Just Delivered a $400,000 Drone to Some Dude by Mistake

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

How about a $400K oops?

UPS Just Delivered a $400,000 Drone to Some Dude by Mistake

Ha, and I thought cisco switch would be hard to sell

 

[haraldo]

How about a $400K oops?

UPS Just Delivered a $400,000 Drone to Some Dude by Mistake

Price per pound is quite high for these drones

And...... I like this:
even after being informed of the error, UPS was more than willing to let him hold onto the US government's drone. According to Seventy_Seven:

 

[Bryceo]

That's not as bad as the Australian postal service, they left a army tank in a family friends factory and when he said he had nothing to do with it they left it in his position


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[BoredSysAdmin]

That's not as bad as the Australian postal service, they left a army tank in a family friends factory and when he said he had nothing to do with it they left it in his position

I call BS police on that one

 

[Bryceo]

I call BS police on that one

You can call what ever you like,
I kno what it was and so does he, it was an Australian army tank in his factory,


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[haraldo]

This is a $600,000 Ooops, And I don't mean Alan Wolf!

High End 2014: The 4 horn, 5 way, 6 hundred thousand dollar Magico Ultimate III | Confessions of a Part-Time Audiophile

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

This is a $600,000 Ooops, And I don't mean Alan Wolf!
High End 2014: The 4 horn, 5 way, 6 hundred thousand dollar Magico Ultimate III | Confessions of a Part-Time Audiophile

What am I missing here? Looks like highly overpriced speaker, but then again it's Magico...

What's the Ooops?