[c-nsp] old Cisco 7000 hardware - Uses? value?

[Joe McGuckin]

Trade them in on a new Juniper M7i and get a 4K discount.



On 5/5/05 7:02 AM, "Bill Wichers" <billw at waveform.net> wrote:

>> We've got some old 7 slot Cisco 7000 boxes in various configurations (4 -
>> only with RPs and SPs, one with an SSP) plus some cards for them (a few
>> multimode AIPs, FIPs, 6 port EIPs).  I imagine that these are pretty
>> useless
>> for production environments however.  Some are missing their flash cards
>> (and metal sleeves to suit - are these really important?).
> 
> RPs and SPs have virtually no value, unless you want to have a little
> Internet museum in your office :-)
> 
> If by "metal sleeves" you mean the support structure for the blade, I'd
> say that without that the blade is pretty much worthless.
> 
>> I don't know whether these things have a resale value on them or not,
>> either.  If so, what are they worth?  Are the line cards useful for the
>> 7500
>> series (maybe the AIPs could be put to use somewhere)?
> 
> You can get maybe $20 tops for each of them on Ebay, except for the AIP
> since no one seems to have any use for those. FIPs (FDDI) sometimes sell
> (but not for much), the EIP you can most likely sell. RPs and SPs seem to
> usually sell for cheap too, although I'm not sure who can actually use
> those anymore... I think the 7000 power supplies will work with the 7500
> routers though (check this, I'm not *certain*), and if that is the case
> then you can probably sell them for a worthwhile amount. I doubt the
> chassis will be of interest to anyone since the high shipping cost will
> make it unattractive.
> 
>> How capable are such units?  I believe they only run 11.1? What sort of
>> people would find practical (i.e. as a router, vs. a doorstop for a big
>> door) uses for them?
> 
> I know for sure that at least the FIP can work in 12.x since we still run
> a few to link halves of a 7576 in one of our POPs. I would imagine the EIP
> probably also works. The AIP I have no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised
> if it no longer functions since that would explain the near total lack of
> interest in that particular blade on the used market.
> 
>    -Bill
> 
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