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Seeing more and more Cisco phones in the nationwide chain type stores.... Just saw local FEDEX/KINKOS changed as well as Walgreens switching out in our area. For better or worse this only helps Cisco sales since consumers/business owners are seeing them in more locations (besides in TV shows). It's getting a little harder selling against them.

The FedEx/Kinkos in our area switched from Avaya to Cisco a while ago. I think the local Walgreens are still using Nortel.

But the $50k question is how well are these Cisco phone systems working out for them?

And you have to remember that those cisco phones were probably as cheap if not cheaper then a nortel or avaya. Specially when you consider that the franchise bought 50,000 of them at once.

And I won't even mention the corporate mantra that no one gets fired for buying microsoft or cisco.

They dropped off the map around here for quite a while. Today, I was given the news that one of my biggest customers is taking the jump to Crisco too. The good news is that they are hiring us to install the redundant network cabling for all of the 30+ locations, since their Crisco "engineer" suggested that they not share the same LAN.

It sure would have been nice if they had offered us the opportunity to provide a proposal, huh?

I could think of a few ways to sabotage that install, Ed.
You could have at least been given the chance to quote them the appropriate string and cans system to match the Cisco

Can I Still Call Out? = CISCO

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Yep, down here the Walgreens are switching out as well as the Fed-Ex/Kinkos (which had Nortel). I see more and more as well....

Steve

Thats so funny. I think this "engineer" needs to google VLAN's.

Bashing aside, the reality is they are working decent enough for these corporations to switch out (even new locations that had Nortel installed under 6 months ago..). Also found out Verizon is offering Cisco solutions...
Good deal for you Ed, at least you get to make some money and can walk away, You won't have to deal with the potential issues they may have. And if they do, you can charge them to check it out....

There existing LAN is probably not up to spec (router, switches etc.) to support an IP Solotion with proper QOS.

I am sure the Cisco guy did some testing to come to that conclusion.