Save On Business Expenses With Used Networking Equipment

One of the interesting aspects of starting up a technological business is that if you need specific types of hardware, there are actually ways for you to save a lot of money on them. The dot com boom part 2 (the first part being around the turn of the century) has really allowed a number of different businesses to get involved in the internet in ways that nobody could ever have imagined initially and therefore the demand for hardware has been steadily increasing for the last few years. When demand for a specific product increases, in addition to better mass production efforts, money is also put into development of related and superior products so that the businesses themselves get the chance to sell other products to the same people afterwards. This creates a phenomenon that could be your best friend if you are looking for ways to save money on the actual cost of hardware for your start-up business' network. <br>

The phenomenon is known as depreciation. The depreciation principle is something that is the best friend of people that commonly buy used merchandise and it also happens to be the worst enemy of people that commonly buy new merchandise. In technology especially, what you are finding more and more is that the people that are interested in technology are going to be people that are interested in having the latest gadget all of the time. Interestingly enough, the latest gadget is also something that a lot of people find is obsolete quite quickly as the next great gadget comes out on the market a few months later. The joke nowadays is that a personal computer is obsolete before you even take it out of the store and in many ways that is absolutely true. And what's more is that it allows you to cash in and save a lot of money in building your first network. <br>

In order for the depreciation principle to work for you, you can not be worried about having the latest and greatest network components. If you are interested in pure aesthetic and bragging value, then you can't save money. If you are interested in basic functionality that you can upgrade at a later date, then you can use the depreciation principle to get one or two year old hardware components for a fraction of the price that they were originally sold for. The hardware components are still functional; the only thing about them is that they are two or three models old and therefore not in use by the most advanced companies in the world today. What's one man's trash is another man's treasure and if you want to save money through the use of used networking equipment, then you better take that motto to heart. Take a look at used merchandise and build as much of your network from used products as you can; your pocketbook and your company's bottom line will both thank you later for all the money you managed to save through the use of used networking equipment.



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About the Author:

This article was brought to you by Lloyd Ross, CEO of Rossdatacom. Lloyd has been involved in the computer networking industry for over 5 years. Rossdatacom is a leading provider of http://www.rossdatacom.com">used networking equipment including http://www.rossdatacom.com/manufacturer/Cisco.html">used cisco equipment , used extreme routers, foundry switches, and more.