No, the rules are still the same as they always were. Over a year ago a
Cisco SE manager told me that buying used products such as those on ebay
were "shady" at the least. He said flat out that hardware could be resold,
but without the IOS. The IP only feature set can be obtained for less than
$20 from an authorized reseller. The only exception to this rule, and is
still a very gray area, if the IOS is in ROM, such as an AGS+ without
flash, or a product that has reached end of life and the software component
is no longer being sold.
Ed
Tighe Kuykendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> An interesting read... I'm not sure if anyone else has seen this.
>
> Tighe
>
>
> As Cisco's channel partner family has grown significantly in
> the past few years, we would like to take this opportunity to
> inform many of our newer partners about our policy regarding
> the reselling of Cisco products. In addition, we would like to
> inform all our partners about an exciting new program that
> affords the opportunity to participate in the secondary market.
>
> Like many high-tech companies that produce software, Cisco
> adopts a policy of nontransferability of its software to
> protect its intellectual property rights. Cisco product owners
> are only allowed to transfer, resell or re-lease used Cisco
> hardware and not the embedded software that runs on the
> hardware. This policy also applies to Cisco standalone software
> applications.
>
> Because Cisco's installed base of equipment has grown to such
> large numbers over the years, companies have become more
> interested in selling and leasing used Cisco equipment on the
> secondary market. To provide our valued customers and partners
> with this capability, Cisco has set up a program in which
> companies can do so and comply with the terms of the software
> license agreement that accompanies every Cisco product.
> Companies interested in transferring title and ownership of
> Cisco equipment that contains embedded software may now
> purchase a new software license to do so. Leasing companies
> that wish to re-lease a Cisco product with embedded software to
> another lessee may also purchase on behalf of the new lessee a
> software license each time before doing so.
>
> To learn more about this new opportunity, as well as how to
> place orders for software licenses, please visit:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/partner/products/swlicense.html
>
>
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