There is now (I think) also a TC 2000 that's a wholy new product, and to the best of my knowledge, can't swap cards with the TC 1000 or older non-integrated-fan-tray chassis. I haven't ever messed with a TC 2000 at all.
The TC-2000 junk is much bigger than the Bay Networks 5000MSX chassis, and uses blades just like the 5000MSX did. Just the TC-2000 is much higher capacity than Bay ever had in the 5000 chassis w/5399 cards.
I'd have to say the TC-2000 was designed with AT&T or AOL in mind. Nothing most people with TC-1000's would be interested in.
Actually, the TC-2000 is designed with VOIP and transaction calls in mind. It is being released as a VOIP box, and later will act as a RAS box. I don't care who you are, there aren't too many POPs large enough to warrant the need of a TC-2000 for RAS. Our largest POP is in Milwaukee, and I could almost fit the whole city's worth of dial in on one single TC-2000. I would never do that for reasons of equipment failure in any case. The first chassis is the control chassis. You can (I believe) fit 7 DS3's worth of lines on it. You can then link 5 additional chassis to the first control chassis. Each of them can have 14 DS3's worth of lines. That's 2156 DS1's or 51,744 lines (in the case of CHT1). And that all fits in 2 standard 19" racks. Quite impressive, but not all that realistic for just about every ISP out there. The TC-1000 with DS3 ingress card and Quad-DSP cards is a much more likely scenario for 99% of the POPs out there, including AOL and AT&T. I wouldn't mind playing with one just for the fun of it, though... <grin> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Curtis V. Shambeau | curt.shambeau@voyager.net | Sr Vice President | | CoreComm, LTD, formerly Voyager.net and ExecPC - Wisconsin Office | | "Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others" | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.