Ask any of the companies and enterprises that are using Cisco products about the difference betweenCisco repair and non-Cisco repair and they all will invariably come up with some common observations. used Cisco products have often resulted in destroying even the usable parts leave alone repairing the damaged ones. In consequence the entire equipment goes beyond scope of repair. Since most of the Routers and Switches have modular designs in Cisco products, they raise a number of complicated issues in repair if the repairer is non-Cisco.

What these observations are?

One; many of them are focused on repair of Cisco products on their own. Some of them are focused on the issue for years together. Enterprises have even gone to the extent of trying for eight years albeit without much success. True, they have been able to address a few problems out of many. Yet many problems still remain unresolved and beyond their reach. The consensus opinion therefore is that not all the Cisco products are repairable though some can be fixed.

Two; there are multiple reasons contributing to some Cisco product going beyond repair. One of them is electrical storms that can destroy several parts at a time in a Cisco product causing the equipment go beyond repair. At times you will not find the board level clips in the market. If one of them fails then you can do nothing. And when there is some problem with the multilayer board, it is normally beyond repair.

Three: attempted repairs to both new and