Refurb Cisco Equipment?

[cpals]

Anyone ever buy refurbished Cisco equipment? In particular I was looking at the 10/100 3750s from Network Liquidators (Link); seems you could get it for a couple thousand cheaper than retail.

Can you put SmartNET on refurbed equipment?

 

[drebo]

Are you planning on using it in production?

If it's actually refurbished by Cisco and not just used and repainted, then yes, you can SmartNET them. However, I do not believe that Network Liquidators sells manufacturer-refurbished equipment. I know that the phones they sell are NOT manufacturer refurbished (we buy our phones from them because they offer a 2 year warranty).

 

[cpals]

Not really sure... just looking at alternatives to keep buying Cisco equipment in a time of major budget cutting.

 

[cmetz]

A place I formerly worked bought a lot of gear from Network Liquidators and put it in critical places in their network. That place also had several critical outages caused by that gear. Do you want to pay in capital, or man-time and customer anger?

For lab gear, it's fine. If you use used/refurb gear in production, you WILL pay for it later.

 

[cpals]

Thanks cmetz... helps put things in perspective.

 

[dphantom]

I also believe Cisco will not provide smartnets on refurb gear unless Cisco has recertified the gear themselves.

HP is not a bad option if you are looking for lower cost network gear.

 

[cpals]

I'm trying to stay within the Cisco realm as to keep a standard and I also know the CLI pretty well.

What about a 2960 for an access switch? Setup would be 6509 --- 10MB metro-ethernet ---> 2821 --> 2960 ---> hosts

 

[cmetz]

cpals, so far I've had good luck with 2960s. I've only used them in light-use edge aggregation roles, not doing hard-core stuff like in a data center.

A 2821 can't even remotely handle a 10Mb/s link at line rate with real features, last I checked.