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Cisco did this in 1999. That's how my smallish apartment building in Sweden ended up with a kick-ass Cisco 10 Gbps switch in its basement a year later - when these cost real money.

I think the HOA still only pays like $10/month/apartment for an entry level that's now defined as 250/250 Mbit/s. Someone must have been unusually savvy with the contracts.

https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y1999/m11/ci...

Cisco survived but it took them until late last year to recover their 1999 stock value (that's 26 years).