Monday, March 15, 2010

Results of Poll on Using Cisco Second Hand Equipment

February 4, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 2 Comments 

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.

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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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2 Responses to “Results of Poll on Using Cisco Second Hand Equipment”
  1. brettp says:

    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 10100 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.

  2. Rob Routt says:

    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.

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