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RFI: One Network, One Choice

April 16, 2001
By Scott Ogawa

Network Computing issued an RFI based on a fictitious company called NewFad. As a relatively small company with limited IT resources, NewFad wants to partner with a single vendor to provide all infrastructure components, installation and support.

The following documents were provided by a number of vendors responding to our RFI. Some were saved in Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word format. Other files were saved as a .jpg or Adobe Acrobat .pdf files. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your desktop, please visit the following Web site to download it.

Here is our list of RFI responses:

Alcatel

Response - (Microsoft Word file)
Business Partners - (Microsoft Excel file)
Headquarters - (Microsoft Excel file)
Assembly Plant - (Microsoft Excel file)
Diagram - (Microsoft PowerPoint file)

Allied Telesyn

Response - (pdf file)
Costs - (Microsoft Excel file)

Extreme Networks

Response - (pdf file)
Bandwidth - (pdf file)
Support Levels - (pdf file)
NewFad-Diagram - (.jpg file)
Leveraging Redundancy to Build Fault-Tolerant Networks - (pdf file)
Server Load Balancing - (pdf file)
Peformance Comparison: Extreme Networks Black Diamond 6808 and Alpine 3808 vs. Cisco Catalyst 6509 - (pdf file)
Quotes - (Microsoft Excel file)

Nortel Networks

Response - (Microsoft Word file)
Chart: NewFad Corporate Data Infrastructure - (pdf file)

Enterasys

Response - (pdf file)