Skip Links

Network World

Brad Reese

Cash in on lower Cisco gross margins this week

By Brad Reese on Mon, 05/04/09 - 5:32pm.
Newsletter Signup

Open source networking vendor - Vyatta is helping customers cash in on lower Cisco gross margins this week.

How?

This Wednesday, May 6, Cisco will announce its 3Q09 financial results.

Vyatta's - Cisco Gross Margin Promotion works like this:

If Cisco announces a 63% gross margin within its financial results this Wednesday, Vyatta will sell its software subscriptions for 63% of list price (37% discount). The lower Cisco's gross margin, the higher Vyatta's discount!

Vyatta Software Subscriptions

Vyatta - Cisco Product ComparisonSource: Vyatta, pricing is US only, per system. For international pricing, visit Vyatta's online store. Software subscriptions are sold based on the number of processor cores in the hardware platform you plan to use. See the Vyatta FAQ for details.

Register for Vyatta's - Cisco Gross Margin Promotion

Terms and Limitations:

Offer valid only for 1-year software subscriptions.
Not valid on renewals.
Not valid on appliances.
No limitations on quantity. Buy as many subscriptions as you want during promotional period.
No limitations on subscription level: choose from Professional, Enterprise, and Premium subscriptions.
Promo is valid from shortly after Cisco announces its numbers on Weds May 6, 2009, through 5:00pm, Pacific time, on Friday, May 8, 2009.


Is cashing in on lower Cisco gross margins a good idea?

Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished - Services that protect, maintain and optimize Cisco hardware
Contact: Brad Reese | Twitter: http://twitter.com/BradReese
Brad's Favorite Story Picks

  1. Juniper Networks takes direct aim at Cisco's one million certified engineers
  2. New HP Networking boss took $17.2M from EMC, but sues to void his non-compete agreement
  3. 100% trade-in credit for Nortel products
  4. Is former Cisco star Mike Volpi selling his dilly-dallier of a video service Joost?
  5. Overcoming fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) in the secondary Cisco market
  6. Cisco sales pipeline is thawing
  7. How can we help Cisco's partner talent portal avoid failure?
  8. Cisco against Buy America provisions of the $7.2B broadband stimulus fund
  9. Cisco may be experiencing some near-term delays with its MDS storage switch refresh
  10. Cisco phone inadvertently featured onboard Air Force One
  11. Cisco has replaced Intel for second place status on The Mercury News Silicon Valley 150
  12. Visual networking meets 2 new visualizations of Cisco NetFlow data
  13. Juniper Networks missed its quarter for the first time in a long time
  14. Cisco target of 20 patent troll lawsuits
  15. Cisco.com domain name about to expire soon
  16. Wall Street analyst Mark Sue discusses the long term evolution (LTE) trends at the core
  17. Mitch Barrie: The Cisco logo is tattooed on his arm and his dog's name is Cisco
  18. Cisco CEO John Chambers disables the flight tracking of his private jet
  19. Cisco supports Open Cloud Manifesto, while the Rolling Stones remain holdouts
  20. View Brad Reese on Cisco Story Archives

Cisco Repair

Refurbished Cisco

Cisco VoIP Gateways

Cisco Power Supplies

Cisco Profit Margins

0

How will the amazingly high Cisco profit margins be affected by Obama closing the off shore tax loop holes?

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • You can use BBCode tags in the text.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <p> <strong> <i> <br /> <br> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <blockquote>

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Welcome, visitor. Register Log in
About Brad Reese on Cisco

Brad Reese cofounded BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished, which enables affordable Cisco networks globally by assuring customer satisfaction with guaranteed one year warranties on both Cisco Repair as well as Refurbished Cisco.

Don't be shy, contact Brad Reese online or call him Toll Free:

866-864-0506

International callers may wish to call Brad by dialing:

850-364-4115

Archives
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
Categories
Allan Sulkin - founder and president of enterprise communications systems and applications consultancy - TEQConsult Group
Careers
Chambers and his Board of Dirctors urged Cisco shareholders to vote NO
China networking marketplace
Christian Brothers Investment Services notice
Cisco
Cisco TelePresence
Cisco TelePresence revenue
Cisco Unified Communications Support for Microsoft Windows 7
Cisco engineer - Kevin Murphy
Cisco has now become the target of unflattering employee reviews
Cisco is warning Unified Communications customers about NOT successfully offering support for Microsoft Windows 7
Cisco is well known as being one of the best companies to work for
Cisco stock chart for the last 10 years
Cisco will have no liability for any delay in delivery
Cisco's 1st Quarter Other Product Revenue By Fiscal Year
Cisco's F1Q10 earnings call
Cisco's Form 10-Q
Cisco's new Stock Incentive Plan as amended and restated
Cisco's upcoming annual stockholder's meeting
Daniel Berg - Skype's CTO
Data Center
Dave Donatelli - HP executive vice president and general manager of enterprise servers and networking
FNF
Father of SIP - Jonathan Rosenberg
Financial windfall for Cisco shareholders
Flexible NetFlow
Flip video camcorder
Flip video camcorder revenue
Gilbert Public School's $3.5 million network upgrade to HP
Gilbert Public Schools Board President - Thad Stump
Gilbert Public Schools assistant superintendent - Barb VeNard
Glassdoor.com is financially backed by 2 of the leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms - Benchmark Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures
HP also bid on the project
HP purchasing 3Com
HP's Converged Infrastructure strategy
HP's acquisition of 3Com
John Chambers has had some good paydays as the CEO of Cisco
LANs / WANs
Microsoft
NBAD
NetFlow
NetFlow add-ons
Network Behavior Anomaly Detection
Network Management
Popular online career and workplace community - Glassdoor.com
ProCurve ONE alliance
Proposal submitted by Christian Brothers Investment Services
Proxy resolution during Cisco's annual meeting
Rosenberg is now Skype's Chief Technology Strategist
SMB
Say on executive pay
Security
Skills and abilities of Skype CTO Daniel Berg
Skype announced Roseberg jumped ship from Cisco
Skype's Chief Technology Strategist - responsible for Skype's overall architecture and technology strategy
So how does one verify that Glassdoor's information is really from Cisco employees?
Software
Superintendent Dave Allison
TelePresence revenue
VoIP / Convergence
When Cisco used its common stock to buy Linksys and Pure Digital
Who's right about Cisco's work environment - Fortune or Glassdoor?
Windows 7
Windows 7 just not worth an all-out urgent effort by Cisco to support
Wireless / Mobile
On The Web
Twitter