GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!

Fri Jan 9 07:46:17 UTC 2004

At 12:39 AM 1/8/2004, Neil J. McRae wrote:

> > Hardware is probably cheaper on eBay than the maintenance fees anyway.
>
>You should be wary of purchasing second user Cisco equipment and
>their software license. Hardware is transferable but the Cisco
>software is not.

If you are buying for replacement equipment and not build-out equipment, 
you *already* have Cisco software licenses for all the units in production, 
and could swap new (used) hardware in to replace damaged hardware without 
needing a new license.  In that situation, buying used spares on eBay 
certainly can be cheaper than paying maintenance fees.

jc