On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:31:40PM +0200, Colin Alston wrote:
Circuits seems worse, but they also don't seem to track their CPE at all. We have boxes full of various teleco CPE, including some Cisco 800 and 1600 routers. I guess it costs more than it's worth to recover it, but the irritating thing is we have to hold it "incase" they ever ask for it.
Well, SOME of that is a deliberate decision. I mean, equipment is expected to have a useful life and then either fail or be obsolete. Some custsomers can carry a contract 4 or 5 years. At that point, the equipment they had may well not be in use anywhere else on the network. There's not much point in reclaiming equipment you can't use and can't get a decent value for through the various disposal channels. But yeah, ISPs and telcos as well are generally horrible about reclaiming property. --- Wayne Bouchard web@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/