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Re:Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of S... by wmf on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:28PM (#30123794)
The really sad part is that Cisco keeps selling 10-year-old obsolete chassis when newer systems have so much lower cost per bit.
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Re:Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of S... by jrrtokenring on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:39PM (#30123836)
Why innovate, when you can stagnate!
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Re:Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of S... by aspyct on Saturday January 29, 2022 @12:24AM (#30124022)
Alternate perspective: if it ain't broken, don't fix it.
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Re:Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of S... by ikiris on Saturday January 29, 2022 @03:00AM (#30124648)
That’s a competing business unit.
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Re:Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of S... by smarx007 on Saturday January 29, 2022 @06:46AM (#30125591)
Cisco stopped selling them all: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/obsolete/switches/cisco-cataly... and https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/catalyst-6500... (2006 and 2020 respectively). The post is the "onion".
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