Consider a company replacing security infrastructure across twenty branch offices.
The retired inventory contains forty branch firewalls, two larger data center firewalls, twenty network switches, and many SFP modules.
The original spreadsheet lists forty two firewall units.
That does not reveal equipment value.
The IT security team reorganizes the inventory.
Small branch appliances form one group.
The data center appliances form another.
High availability pairs remain matched.
SFP modules are recorded separately.
Support status is checked.
Security configuration is removed according to company policy.
The resulting asset list is far more useful for valuation.
This is an educational composite case based on common enterprise security refresh projects and is not presented as a named customer transaction.