[c-nsp] Article: Beware of counterfeit Cisco gear

[Scott Granados]

Yes, I recently was having a bunch of gear quoted out one of which was a
pair of 7206's npeg1 and g2.  The gig upgrade on the g1 was huge money,
over 6000 actually over 7000 I'll pull the quote and confirm the exact
dollar amount.  It was less expensive to go npe2g with the built in
memory than buy a series 1 and upgrade.  This was approximately 1.5 to 2
months ago something on that order.  I'd provide you more off list if
you like, I'd rather not call out the vendor on the list as it's not
their pricing that's the issue but Cisco's.  

G. Scott Granados
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis at lewis.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:05 PM
To: Scott Granados
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Article: Beware of counterfeit Cisco gear

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Scott Granados wrote:

> Yes, but you have to agree that Cisco abuses it's customers on this
> front as well.  While $160 might be quite reasonable for a t1
interface
> (at least I think so), $7000 for Kingston memory that is available at
> Frys isn't.  Are 3rd parties making fake higher end components like
6509
> cards or the like or is this mainly an issue on the smaller gbic /
wicc
> side of things?

I've got no problem with 3rd party parts as long as they're compatible, 
someone stands behind them, and they don't lie.  I don't want a "China 
special" WIC if I think I'm buying a cisco WIC.

As for the memory, can you cite the example you keep mentioning?  My 
experience has been that cisco is usually around 10x market price on 
memory...which is why we typically get memory from Crucial.

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