Re: Impressed?
If you look at many "good" knock off products they are made at the same factory as the legitimate parts.
Run the product line for an extra hour each day and sell the extra parts via grey market.
Cisco had significant issues with this with Catalyst 29XX switch's and Cisco 2600/2800 routers (possibly others as well but personally have found grey market equipment including ~10 out of 30 2960Xs that couldn't be upgraded direct from the reseller when applying newer software images. As of IOS15 (released 2012) more hardware and software checks were introduced and started flagging up these parts and I haven't seen grey market Cisco kit in new shipments for at least 5 years.
The surprise is that these switches were running an old enough release to not be detected before 2020.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
