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.

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On Thu, May 19, 2022, 9:48 AM Josh Luthman <josh@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.taht@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