SPECTRA is a global dealer trading (buying and selling) in enterprise level and midrange servers, storage, and networking equipment since 1982.

For over 30 years, Spectra have provided customers with high quality, used and refurbished systems from premium best-of-breed brands, covering all areas of enterprise and midrange computing, storage, and networking needs such as:

Midrange Servers

IBM Power Systems, offered with Power 6 or Power 7 processors are a versatile AIX/Unix based midrange business server.  Power servers are also available as JS Blade center servers. Spectra  Equipment, Inc. buys and sells and sells used IBM Power series servers, used iSeries servers, and used pSeries midrange servers. 

SUN-Oracle  Fire, Netra, Enterprise, Sparc-based T-Series, and Intel-based x86 servers remain a leading competitor for business computing, offering the greatest value of versatile computing power per dollar spent. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used SUN Microsystems SUN Fire, Netra and Enterprise servers.

HP servers offer a wide variety of configurations for Proliant Servers, offering excellent midrange computing with G6, G7 or G8 processors, with the ML series, DL series, SL series and Proliant blade servers. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used Hewlett Packard, RP Series, used Proliant servers, and used Integrity Business Servers, features and peripherals.

Enterprise/Mainframe Servers

IBM System Z Enterprise eServers and System z10 mainframes, formerly known as Z9 Series, continue at the forefront of leading edge technology in Enterprise mainframe computing environments. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used IBM System Z z10 EC and z10 BC servers , System Z z9 EC & BC servers, IBM 2089, IBM 2086, IBM 2064 and S/390 mainframe processors.

Oracle Sun Microsystems M9000 and M8000 High-End servers are well suited to business processing, IT infrastructure and computationally intensive scientific engineering tasks. With scalability up to 64 Sparc64 VI CPUs at 2.4GHz, Suns M9000 and M8000 servers have the power for the largest enterprise requirements. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used Sun M9000 and M8000 servers.

Hewlett Packard's 2nd generation Integrity Superdome 2 and HP9000 Superdome servers represent the most powerful High-End machines HP has to offer. The 2-128 way Integrity built on Itanium2 and the 2-64 way (128 core) HP9000 built on PA-8900 are the premier choice for mission-critical or enterprise level environments. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used HP Superdome servers.

High-Availability Disk and Tape Storage

EMC remains the leading manufacturer of SAN, NAS (Celerra) and high availability disk array storage for Enterprise or Midrange applications with their VMAX,  and VNX  SAS arrays, and Clariion CX4 Fibre Channel SAN arrays. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used EMC Symmetrix, used EMC, VNX, VMAX , Clariion, and Celerra arrays, chassis, controllers and drives.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) continue at the forefront of leading edge technology in HA high availability Enterprise storage solutions with their Hitachi VSP  (Virtual Storage Platform), Hitachi USP (Universal Storage Platform), and Hitachi AMS (Adaptable Modular Storage) disk arrays. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used HDS, Hitachi Data Systems VSP, USP, and AMS disk arrays, chassis, controllers and drives.

Network Appliance (NetApp) provides proven products to simplify complex IT environments and reduce your total cost of ownership, offering an exceptional value. Whether your data center is small, midrange, or large, NetApp offers a solution to fit your need. Their filer head lines include the FAS2200 series, FAS3200 series, and FAS6200 series. NetApp offers a wide variety of compatible disk shelves to pair with the filers, including: DS14MK2, DS14MK4 for Fibre Channel SAN arrays, DS 4246,  DS4243, DS2246 or DS4486 configured  with SAS or SATA drives. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used NetApp filers, disk shelves and drives.

Hewlett Packard offers the widest variety of SAN disk stoage, and has a product that will match up to every company's need from small business to Enterprise level. The StorageWorks XP P9500 and  StorageWorks XP24000   disk arrays offer the highest level of scalability. StorageWorks XP arrays are true enterprise class storage solutions. For smaller applications, HP offers Modular Smart arrays, Enterprise virtual Arrays (HP EVA) and the HP 3PAR Midrange solution. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used StorageWorks XP arrays, HP Modular, HP 3 Par, and HP EVA arrays, cabinets, and drives. 

IBM System Storage enterprise-class disk arrays offer high capacity and availability for the most demanding data storage environments. The IBM Scale Out Network Attach Storage (SONAS) scales up to 21.6PB and supports 600GB, 900GB, 2TB & 3TB drives, IBMs XIV Storage System scales to 243TB with Fibre & iSCSI connectivity for integration into an existing enterprise. The IBM DS8000 series seamlessly scales from 5TB to 2.3PB with 10K, 15K and solid state disk drives while leveraging Fibre Channel/FICON connectivity. IBM also offers nSeries storage for smaller midrange applications. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used IBM SONAS, XIV and DS8000 arrays, and nSeries cabinets and drives. 

StorageTek (now a subsidiary of Oracle Sun) continues to lead the industry in enterprise tape backup with their SL48, SL24, SL8500, SL3000,  and SL500 tape libraries populated with T10000, 9940, 9840, LTO, and SDLT, tape drives. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used StorageTek tape libraries with LTO drives. 

Networking

Cisco remains the most popular manufacturer of network routers, switches and VOiP equipment. With varied offerings ranging from their Catalyst 3000 Series switches, to the ASR Aggregation Services Routers, to the ONS Optical Networking System and the CRS Carrier Routing Systems Cisco has a router or switch that will meet the demands of large and small enterprises. Spectra ® Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used Cisco Catalyst 3000 series, 7000 series, and 7600 series routers & switches, as well as used Cisco ASR, ONS, CRS & UAS systems.

Juniper Networks with their Q-Series, MX-Series, ACX Series and CTP Series  routers provide carrier-class hardware routing solutions. Spectra ® Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used Juniper Networks T-Series, M-Series, J-Series and E-Series routers, chassis and line cards. 

Foundry Networks, now Brocade, is a leading provider of enterprise and service provider class switches with their BigIron, NetIiron and FastIron product lines. Brocade SAN switches, like the DCX series, offer high port density 10/100/1000 and 10Gb-E for enterprise wiring closets and data centers. Brocade offers smaller solutions tailored to the needs of small-midrange companies as well, by way of their Silkwork Switches., offering speeds of 8Gbe and 10Gbe. Spectra ® Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used Brocade BigIron, used FastIron, used NetIron, used Silworm and used DCX switches, routers, chassis and line cards. 

Extreme Networks scalability comes standard with the chassis-based Extreme BlackDiamond and Extreme Alpine switches. The Extreme Summit family of switches include the Summit x670, Summit x650, and  Summit X480 and X460 series. Spectra ® Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used Extreme Networks BlackDiamond, and  used Extreme Summit switches, chassis and line cards.

Fault Tolerant Servers

First Tandem, then Compaq, now Hp Hewlett Packard S-Series Himalaya continues to dominate the NonStop fault tolerant business computing market for online transaction processing. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used Tandem, Compaq, HP Hewlett Packard S-Series Himalaya S86000, S8600, S76000, S7600, S74000, S7400 and S70000 series servers and peripherals  . 

Stratus Continuum and ftServer Fault Tolerant servers remain a leading competitor for fault tolerant, non stop business computing. The Stratus Continuum, and ftServer Fault Tolerant server families all offer 99.9% uptime. Spectra Equipment, Inc. buys and sells used Stratus Continuum, used and used ftServer Fault Tolerant servers.