[c-nsp] Re-licensing secondhand Cisco equipment

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Tue Jan 7 10:36:51 EST 2014


On Tuesday, January 07, 2014 04:50:46 PM Chris Marget wrote:

> I'm curious to hear experience stories from anyone who's
> explored the hardware inspection and relicensing
> program:
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/hw_sw_relicensing_program
> .html
> 
> Specifically, I'm curious about:
> - the inspection process/logistics
> - the costs associated with the inspection
> - the cost of various software licenses, and whether
> these are standard price list items

The first and last time I thought about doing this (both on 
Cisco and Juniper), it was just cheaper to:

	- Continue buying off the grey market, even when
	  things break as they tend to do with such avenues,
	  or

	- Buy new kit from Cisco and support that from Day
	  One.

YMMV.

Mark.
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