What about clients with a Single Vendor Network?
The following key findings are highlighted in the recent Gartner report - “Debunking the Myth of the Single-Vendor Network”:
- Introducing a second vendor into the network infrastructure will have no long-term impact on operational costs for organizations following best practice
- Introducing a second networking vendor will reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for most organisations by at least 15% to 25% over a five-year time frame
- We did not encounter one example were operational cost savings would offset the equipment cost premium that Cisco generally charges
- Most organisations that introduced a second vendor report a lasting decrease in network complexity, compared with an all-Cisco network
- Network operations teams that are already using some form of multivendor management tools for fault alerting, configuration management or performance management are well-positioned to take advantage of the second-vendor opportunity.
