NetFlash: Cisco aims to own used-gear market

If Cisco doesn’t sell used Cisco gear, someone else will. That’s why the company is ramping up its efforts to refurbish Cisco products and sell them at prices that are much lower than its usual rates. Cisco’s edge is in the support and software licensing – which you wouldn’t be able to get if you bought a used router off eBay. Cisco aims to own used-gear market http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524ciscoused.html?net

If Cisco doesn’t sell used Cisco gear, someone else will. That’s why the company is ramping up its efforts to refurbish Cisco products and sell them at prices that are much lower than its usual rates. Cisco’s edge is in the support and software licensing – which you wouldn’t be able to get if you bought a used router off eBay.

Cisco aims to own used-gear market

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524ciscoused.html?net

WLAN switch execs come to dinner

Cisco was also one of the primary topics discussed at our N+I dinner for several wireless LAN vendors. While last year’s conversation seemed to center on nuts and bolts, this year’s talk was all about selling and competition – and Cisco is squarely in these vendors’ sights.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524wlandinner.html?net

Experts disagree about seriousness of IOS code theft

While the FBI and Cisco scrambled last week to recover source code stolen from the network giant, expert opinion differs about how serious a threat the incident is for corporate customers.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524ciscoios.html?net

Q&A: Life after Verizon sees BBN returning to its roots

If you thought Internet and e-mail pioneer BBN had disappeared some years ago, you wouldn’t be alone, acknowledges Tad Elmer, the company’s president and CEO. Never a huge self-promoter, the consistently profitable research-and-development outfit went into big-time quiet mode when it became part of Verizon in 2000 by way of a merger involving then-parent GTE. Newly independent after being sold off earlier this year, BBN is ready to break its silence. Elmer recently updated Network World Executive News Editor Bob Brown on the 56-year-old company’s plans.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524bbn.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where if you don’t behave, we’ll turn this thing around and go home:

Meet the “ultimate weapon against cyber crime”; a place to find your next geeky project; 10 points to ponder for the Google Ethics Committee; and the winner of our latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this and more today at your home for not-just-networking news.

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