[c-nsp] Green Cisco

[Hank Nussbacher]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Justin Shore wrote:

> So does Cisco.  When we placed a large order 2 years ago I received to 
> identical packages from Singapore (some sort of Air parcel company). Inside 
> each box was 2 layers of pink foam padding.  Between the foam was 2 sheets of 
> legalese license disclaimer crap.  It wasn't a serial #, license key, PAK, 
> etc.  It was just more crap to throw away.  The other box had identical 
> contents.  They were shipped out on the same day.  In fact if memory serves 
> me correctly they had consecutive tracking and way bill numbers.  I felt 
> special.
>
> We bought a large quantity of Champion SFPs for a non-Cisco project. They 
> were shipped packed in sheets of molded anti-static plastic that contains 
> spots for about a dozen SFPs.  These were packed in anti-static boxes of 4-5 
> layers of plastic.  No paper crap to through away.  No static bags to cut 
> open and then trash.  Nice and neat.  Other vendors I won't name here place 
> them in a padded cardboard box the size of a typical pocket knife.  When I 
> bought several dozen Cisco SFPs a few years back each SFP was in a static 
> bag.  The static bag was in a large Ziploc of sorts that also contained 
> several sheets of paper (install info, legalese crap).  For a short time I 
> actually bothered to open each plastic bag and remove each static bag and 
> paper.  The paper went into one recycling pile and the plastic bag into 
> another.  That didn't last long.  I gave up on that waste of time and started 
> slicing the plastic bags open with my knife to get to the static bag.  Then 
> tossed the rest in the trash.  Same goes for switches and routers.  I trash 
> every piece of paper in the box.
>
> Their shipping and packing methodologies are less than green.  The least they 
> could do is give us a part number to exclude the crap.  We have the "=" part 
> numbers for spares.  How about a "-" part number for green packing?  One 
> would think that it would save Cisco reasonable sums of money too which I'm 
> sure they'd like to do in these rougher times.
>
> Justin

The guy who would be best to approach is Executive VP of Operations and 
Process - Randy Pound (or Pond).  But since he exercised $15.8M of stock 
options this year and $28.5M last year - chances are he has one foot out 
the door by now: http://biz.yahoo.com/t/61/4033.html

I guess he knew what was gonna happen to the Cisco stock :-)

-Hank