Renewing the same support tier everywhere?

01 · Support

Which support approach fits each part of the estate?

A customer-held spare has a modeled saving of 65.8% vs standard OEM next-business-day support in Campus sites in Americas. Public-sector contract ceiling prices are higher than the synthetic prices they replaced. This raises the baseline by 8.1% and raises the savings of the alternatives. Weighted third-party savings are 32.6% across 11 comparable segments; customer-held spare savings are 61.4% across 3.

NASPO ValuePoint Cisco contract ceiling prices, effective 2026-10-01. Annual term (owner ruling; consistent with catalog structure and reseller listings; not stated in the NASPO catalog).

NASPO-priced / estate devices by vendor

Cisco

790 / 4,029

Meraki

0 / 340

Palo Alto

0 / 12

HPE / Aruba

0 / 546

Arista

0 / 372

Fortinet

0 / 193

APC / Schneider

0 / 160

Opengear

0 / 80

Juniper

0 / 70

Dell

0 / 15

Brocade

0 / 6

F5

0 / 6

Checkpoint

0 / 4

Support remains synthetic for Cisco (models without a NASPO price match), Meraki, Palo Alto, HPE / Aruba, Arista, Fortinet, APC / Schneider, Opengear, Juniper, Dell, and Checkpoint. Devices without an available support price remain unpriced. Passive equipment (Corning and Panduit) is excluded: support pricing does not apply.

02 · Energy

What does it cost to power the estate?

Vendor datasheets show 12.5% lower device power for 286 of 2,384 devices with a verified replacement pair. This is not a whole-estate or electricity-cost saving. Published-tariff branch power spans $154–$915 per powered device-year.

03 · Refresh timing

When and how should end-of-support hardware be refreshed?

Third-party extension saves 75.0% on an undiscounted basis against replacement at end of support for the Cisco successor, 2029 cohort, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Replacing now instead of at end of support raises five-year cost NPV by 0.0%–31.4% across comparable segments. 8.0% discount rate (assumption). Undiscounted totals are equal for replacement timing alone; rising post-end-of-support cost is not modeled.

04 · Cost stack

What makes up the cost of running each part of the estate?

Hardware makes up 47.4% of modeled five-year cost for branch sites in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and labor 28.4%. The data center mix is indicative because few data center models have a priced successor.

05 · Automation

What does automating network changes save at different scales?

The full automation, United States, 1,000 devices, high change, normal criticality scenario has a modeled saving of 85.1% vs manual work at the same change volume and scale.