Original URL: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/10/02/cisco_counterfeit_equipment/
Cisco kicks UK distie for flogging counterfeit kit
Distie says sorry
Posted in IT Channel, 2nd October 2007 18:50 GMT
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A Manchester - based distie is to apologise publicly for selling counterfeit Cisco equipment. Gen-x it is also handing over supplier information and paying Cisco an undisclosed sum, in return for not being taken to court, CRN UK reports (http://www.vnunet.com/crn/news/2199895/cisco-rebukes-counterfeit). in January 2005 Cisco made a test purchase from Gen-X IT, and then enlisted the help of Manchester Trading Standards. Officers seized "various counterfeit products", in a raid on Gen-x premises in September '05, the paper reports. ®