Poll ran from 14th December to 4th February and asked “Would you consider using second hand or resale Network Equipment ?”.
So the answer is YES
From a total of 167 Votes, 139 people will consider using second hand equipment, that is, 84% of voters.
Which is interesting, because I would not have expected that many people to be in favour of using second hand equipment. I would guess the further examination is needed to determine the level of commitment. For example, would you purchase the Cisco Software Relicensing and then put the equipment back under maintenance ? Would you consider using the second hand equipment in mission critical areas, or only at the edge of your network ?
Let me know if you would like to see a more in-depth poll.
Ideas for the next poll ?
And if anyone has any ideas for the next poll, feel free to contact me or leave a comment below.
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About Greg Ferro
Our company uses Network Hardware Resale pretty extensively for our infrastructure. Our primary core is a 6509 chassis with 2 MFSC cards for redundancy, 3 gig blades and 4 10/100 blades. At the time of purchase it would have run us more than $130,000, new. We bought it for $33,000. Not a bad savings for a device that has been running (except for 2 blade failures) for 1787 days, 15 hours, 40 minutes.
Needless to say, we have new and used gear throughout our infrastructure. A lot of times, for the prices we pay, we normally just take our chances and don’t pick up a maintenance contract and (knock on wood) the hardware is rock solid and just runs. This is why I’m a fan of Cisco gear.
I agree with Brett. NHR is solid, lower MTBF than new cisco, one-year standard warranty, excellent service and quick turn around. I have yet to have any DOA or problematic orders from NHR.