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When You Should Buy Used Cisco Equipment

There are many companies and other means of acquiring used and refurbished Cisco equipment on the Internet. These include highly regarded businesses that buy up used gear, inspect and test it, then resell it. Often times, this used gear can include extended warranties in case of failure. Other methods of buying used equipment are from auction sites such as Ebay or online classified ads a la craigslist. I have used all of these methods for acquiring Cisco Systems equipment. Here are three situations where I felt purchasing used Cisco equipment was justifiable.

How to Setup 12Call Thailand Data Plan on your iPhone or Blackberry

iPhone 4 Antenna Problem Raises Question: When Should One Buy Bleeding Edge Tech?

People have to understand that new technology, even with the best of companies can be riddled with bugs. People that are just sick over their iPhone 4 having reception problems obviously are not the type of people that should be buying the latest and greatest gear. I have a friend who is one of the greatest technical minds I’ve ever known. His philosophy is that no matter the product, always wait at least 6 months or until rev. 2 comes out before buying. After all, when it comes down to it, human beings still create these products despite them being made by machines today. And we all know people do make mistakes That is sound advise.

Cisco Jumps on the Tablet Bandwagon

Thin client to run a full-blown OS when docked at the office. That means that the Tablet could potientially be the one and only tool that someone needs to perform all of their daily tasks.

Bandwidth Testing Thailand Cellular with Cisco GIST

In my last post, I talked about my wireless provider in Thailand, AIS.  AIS has a very good blanket of 2G Edge across the country…and even over the boarder into Burma, Laos and Cambodia from my experience.  I’ve used the data plan for checking email and light browsing.  I also have used it to upload

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Using an iPhone in Thailand with 12Call

Then I dialed *139# to check how many hours/minutes I had left on my phone and was surprised that after beginning the program, I used up nearly all of my time.

CiscoLive! in Las Vegas this Week

This week is the start of Cisco’s largest IT and communications conference where network engineers from all over the world gather in Las Vegas (this year) to receive training from Cisco as well as to talk to other engineers about news, trends and technology.