Cisco! The future is about footprint and the secondary market can help!
Cisco! You know the future is all about footprint… and we can help! Read more
Why aren't Cisco software updates free?
When you purchase a Cisco router, say an 1841, you pay your $700 to your local VAR who orders it from Ingram Micro and delivers it to you within in a few weeks. A few months ago it was 15 weeks, but Cisco has dramatically improved lead times on many products since this summer. Your router comes with IP BASE installed, for the sake of argument let's say its version 12.4(18). If you want to upgrade from IP BASE to IP ENTERPRISE BASE you pay an extra $275 for the entirely new software feature set. Read more
Confused by 10GbE optics modules?
Over the years of 10 gigabit Ethernet’s existence, there have been numerous different form factors and optics types introduced. The oldest, XENPAKS, remain very popular as the install base is large, while the newest SFP+ offer a much smaller form factor and the ability to offer 1G/10G combo ports on hardware for the first time. Read more
Is the Force10 S60 the best "Top-of-rack" switch yet?
Force10 Networks has just announced their latest offering in the crowded field of "datacenter top-of-rack" switches. Cisco has multiple offerings including the new 4948E (not to be confused with the older 4948-E which is a very different switch), and Arista and Juniper, among others, offer competitive products. Read more
Why Cisco users need to know Tcl
The following is a guest post written by Jeff Hobbs (pictured), director of engineering for a company called ActiveState. ActiveState offers developer tools for writing, managing and distributing dynamic language scripts written in Perl, Python and Tcl. Read more
Inline Power, POE or POE+ -- which do you need?
Cisco Inline Power, POE, and the new POE+ Read more
CISCO1921 to replace the very popular 1841
The new CISCO1921 is a replacement for the very popular 1841 . New licensing and software, (probably) better performance, support for new modules – it dominates the 1841 and previous generations of branch office routers.
The current standard, the CISCO1841 Read more
Lead times continue to plague Cisco
Or, put another way, When a customer asks for POE, Cisco says… Sorry. Customer says… HP? (see http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60059)
There is no real end in sight for Cisco’s supply chain problems. Customers have been waiting months for some of their most common products. And now, right when market demand is truly inflecting, with a resurgence in both spending and optimism, Cisco still cannot deliver the goods.
Check this out from Cisco.com today:
Products/Lead time:
WS-C2960G-48TC-L
125-132 Days
WS-C3560V2-48PS-S
41-48 Days
WS-C3560G-48TS-S Read more
HP taking aim squarely at Cisco – and its undervalued partners
Cisco has a vast partner network (some 60,000 worldwide, including 12,000 high-end Certified Partners) and this network accounts for more than 80 percent of Cisco’s product and services revenue ($28B in 2009). Yet when you talk to an average Cisco partner, they will tell you they make almost nothing on the sale of Cisco’s own products and services, and all their own money on the professional services they offer along with the Cisco products – configuration, installation, and technical support. Read more
Millions of dollars of Cisco gear, but unaffiliated with Cisco
I am the CEO of Network Hardware Resale, a big Cisco reseller - but unaffiliated with Cisco. I believe we are politely called "the gray market" within the authorized Cisco world, though I've heard many more unsavory terms used as well. The reality is we often compete with Cisco, but also provide a tremendously valuable service to Cisco and the Cisco brand and here's why: Read more
- About Network Resolutions
Mike Sheldon is the CEO of Network Hardware Resale, one of the world’s largest secondary market reseller of Cisco equipment. With approximately $200m in hardware revenue, NHR will sell over one billion dollars worth of Cisco equipment (at list price) in 2010.
Mike attended MIT before joining Swiss Bank Corporation (ultimately UBS) where he became the head of emerging market trading for North America, encompassing foreign currency, sovereign and corporate debt, and derivatives trading. He joined NHR in sales in 2001 and was named CEO in 2005. NHR has grown from $25 million to over $200 million in revenue in that time.
NHR is not affiliated with Cisco.
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