Shockingly, only some defrauded organizations checked with the Cisco partner site to verify that Pro Networks was a legitimate reseller. Pro Network was selling counterfeit Cisco gear to school districts, hospitals, government agencies, and even the military for ten percent of the MSRP, generating over US$100 million in sales during its lifetime.
The retail value of the counterfeit products was said to be US$1 billion. When is Cisco Gear Not Cisco Gear? When it is fraudulently manufactured in China to look like Cisco network gear and sold from a fraudulent Cisco reseller named Pro Network.
