As someone who works within the "secondary market" for networking hardware, there is a ton of demand spilling over into the "pre-owned/vendor refurbished" market.
Market prices on pre-owned equipment are rapidly increasing in step with increased demand and dwindling supply. Market prices on 1G - 10G switching products, wireless infrastructure devices, etc have been rising precipitously. Even semi "legacy" stuff going back 2-3 generations (EOL/EOS) from current gen have doubled, tripled, even quadrupled in price. I've been involved in the hardware business for 20 years and the current market landscape is unprecedented. Cory J. Andrews ++++++++++++++ NetEquity.com (Formerly CiscoBuy.com) 4519 Northgate Court Sarasota, FL 34234 ++++++++++++++ TF/FAX 877.582.4726 E - sa...@netequity.com On Thu, May 19, 2022, 9:48 AM Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > I'd bet it's cheaper and easier to quantify new hardware than software. > Labor was super expensive and now it is ready to implode. > > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 9:27 AM Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As I've been saying for a while, instead of buying new kit, perhaps we >> could spend some time on getting better software onto our older kit? >> Getting stuff to multiplex better, be more reliable, last longer? >> >> It isn't just me wanting to upgrade a billion+ routers with existing >> crappy software to openwrt, is it? >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T21on7g1MqQZoK91epUdxLYFGdtyLRgBat0VXoC9e3I/edit >> >