At Cisco, sustainability isn’t just a once-a-year dedication – it’s part of how we assist companions of their efforts to make extra sustainable, cost-effective selections day-after-day. Cisco Refresh, one among Cisco’s longest-standing initiatives, is one instance of an providing that gives each enterprise and sustainability advantages to clients.
As we speak, Cisco Refresh continues to be an necessary a part of Cisco’s efforts to evolve to a round enterprise mannequin. Now in its third decade, Cisco Refresh sells licensed, remanufactured Cisco merchandise at decrease costs than new ones, however with all the identical guarantee and repair choices as them. This extends the helpful life cycle of our merchandise and reduces the necessity for virgin supplies – enabling clients to higher execute on their greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions discount and sustainability targets.
For instance:
- Prospects who select Cisco Refresh switches or IP telephones can understand not less than a 60% discount in embodied carbon emissions in comparison with buying equal new merchandise.
Transitioning to a Round Enterprise Mannequin
Cisco strives to speed up the transition from a conventional linear financial system that extracts assets and finally wastes them, to a round one which finds new makes use of for merchandise and their inputs to reduce waste and optimize useful resource use.
Cisco Refresh is central to this transformation, complementing our portfolio designed with circularity in thoughts, together with versatile fee and subscription fashions, to maximise product life cycle worth.
We focus our efforts in three core areas:
- Round Design: Embedding sustainability into how we design our merchandise and packaging from the outset.
- Round Choices: Enabling clients and companions to embrace circularity via applications like Cisco Refresh and Cisco Inexperienced Pay.
- Get better and Redeploy: Recapturing used {hardware} to increase product life via reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling.
Driving Enterprise Sustainability: The Cisco Circularity Promotion
We wish to allow our clients and companions to learn from Cisco Refresh. The Cisco Circularity Promotion provides Cisco companions and distributors aggressive pricing on licensed remanufactured merchandise, together with present and end-of-sale objects, enhancing price financial savings whereas selling round practices.
Since its January 2024 launch, the promotion has:
- Expanded from 576 to over 1,300 remanufactured (-RF) merchandise.
- Simplified and standardized pricing and reductions:
- 55% low cost on Subsequent-Gen Firewall & Community Safety
- 60% low cost on Enterprise Switching & Wi-fi
- 65% low cost on Optics
- 70% low cost on Hyper Converged
- 75% low cost on Edge Routing and Servers
- Expanded from the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Center East, to the Asia Pacific area, offering worldwide protection.
- Acquired 474 new companions, indicating robust utilization.
- Elevated utilization throughout all buyer segments (SMB, Business, Public Sector, Service Supplier, and Enterprise).
Streamlining Enterprise Operations
We prioritize simplicity alongside sustainability. Enhanced visibility and entry to Cisco Refresh stock embrace:
- CCW BOT Integration: Companions can now verify lead occasions and inventory availability for licensed remanufactured tools (famous with an “-RF” suffix) by way of the CCW BOT (ccwbot@webex.bot). This helps companions keep knowledgeable about any updates to steer occasions, as typically “-RF” merchandise ship quicker than new Cisco merchandise, a key perception for planning and managing orders successfully. Companions (1-Tier and 2-Tier) and Distributors can all entry the CCW BOT.
- Cisco Refresh Stock Visibility API: This enhanced API gives real-time entry to in-stock remanufactured merchandise which are able to be ordered now. Companions leveraging this functionality can maximize their Cisco Refresh mix, which may positively influence their margins. Please view the API implementation tips right here.
This Earth Day and day-after-day, Cisco is proud to empower our companions and clients with the instruments to assist get monetary savings, cut back waste, preserve assets, and function extra sustainably.
Should you’re all for studying extra firsthand, Cisco Refresh might be featured within the Function Pavilion on the upcoming Cisco Dwell in San Diego, CA (June 9-12, 2025), so come by and converse to representatives for our workforce!
To study extra about our round financial system transformation, go to our Function Reporting Hub.
For common questions on Cisco Refresh, please electronic mail our workforce at refreshquestions@cisco.com.
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