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Taylor Burnham
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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: Possibly knockoff Cisco gear? |
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So I'm about to acquire the gear to get my CCNP. At the Occupational
Advisory Committee meeting at the technical school I graduated from,
some of the members mentioned that theres a possibility that the gear
could be a knockoff. Is there any way to check on this other then having
to go back and find the receipts of the original purchase? |
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Doug McIntyre
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:02 am Post subject: Re: Possibly knockoff Cisco gear? |
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Taylor Burnham <spazztastic@gmail.com> writes:
| Quote: | So I'm about to acquire the gear to get my CCNP. At the Occupational
Advisory Committee meeting at the technical school I graduated from,
some of the members mentioned that theres a possibility that the gear
could be a knockoff. Is there any way to check on this other then having
to go back and find the receipts of the original purchase?
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I think alot of this mindset is Cisco's FUD about buying graymarket gear...
But they do have up a page on detecting their commonly counterfeited
parts (mostly WIC-1DSU-T1, VWIC-xMFT-x...)
The counterfiters are going to go after cheap to make, easily copyable
items that can be sold over and over again. Much of Cisco's product
line past the entry-level gear uses custom ASICs which are going to be
difficult to copy, and not that large of a market for. How many people
are going to go buy a Sup720 card off eBay. Less than 100? They can't
make back their reverse engineering costs at those volumes.
OOTH, WIC-1DSU-T1's get sold by the hundreds all the time, and are
easily copyable, no ASIC on it.
Cisco has a page up showing things to look for for counterfeit gear.
http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/brand-protection/know_your_product.html
You may need the free CCO account level to get into this page. |
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