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summary: Under 3500 cores, a service provider now has to attach to a Premier or Pinnacle CSP. We do not host anything ourselves, so we are not a competitor.
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## What changed

Since Broadcom's acquisition, service providers have to attach to a CSP in the Pinnacle or
Premier tier if their core count is below 3500. For many Swiss providers that is not a
choice but a condition of carrying on.

## Why us specifically

Because we do not host anything ourselves. We are a partner rather than a competitor, and
in this business that is not a throwaway line: licensing your platform through someone who
serves the same customers gives away more than an order quantity.

As a CSP in the Premier tier we supply white-label licensing for your hosting platform,
along with help integrating the VCF technologies. We implement VCF ourselves and can help
with Tanzu, NSX, vSAN and the operations tooling, so the stack you bought actually gets
used.

## Working out your core count

Read the core count from your vCenter inventory. The part that catches people out: **every
CPU counts as at least 16 cores**, even where the actual number is lower. That is where
estimates go wrong.