Re: Smartnet and used equipment

From: Bruce Komito (brucek@bagel.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 19:05:10 EST


We have had smartnet maintenance on used equipment. Cisco is very happy
to take the money.

Bruce Komito
Sierra Lakes Internet / Western Pacific Telecom, Inc.
Voice: (775) 324-3000 ext 18 Fax: (775) 831-3970
http://www.wpti.net

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jared Mauch wrote:

> i'd just buy some used spares. sometimes that is cheaper
> depending on the devices and their configurations. just because
> the chain of ownership wasn't direct they should still be able
> to sell you smartnet imho.
>
> because you purchase from a reseller instead of cisco (for example)
> doesn't mean that you can't get smartnet.
>
> - jared
>
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:41:16PM -0800, Steve Francis wrote:
> > My cisco rep is telling me that smartnet contracts will not be honored
> > on used cisco gear (trying to get me to buy new stuff at more than twice
> > the price. Which in my case means I'm not going to be able to buy the
> > cisco stuff, and will be going to J land (or possibly Extreme))
> >
> > Anyone got any info or experiences that refute or corroborate that?
> > Thanks
>
> --
> Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net
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>
>



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