This is what 3Com/Commworks needs to realize...there's a *HUGE* installed base of older equipment out there, and every time they EOL a product so quickly after the End Of Sales of that product, they piss off their customers even more. 3com/Commworks has a nasty habit of doing this...NETServer PRI, 486 based NMC, now quads and dual-pri cards...not to mention the absolute insanity of their support contracts...even after 3 years of screaming and yelling of people on this list.
I must admit, if there's no V92 for Quads this will almost surely see us convert our 1000 or so ports to Cisco. We have no interest in HiPerDSP cards - they are too dense for us. Quad cards suit us *just*fine*. We have an interest in HiPerARC server cards, but they're just too damn expensive. Unlike in the US, I don't believe there have been any particularly attractive trade-up promotions here (if there were, 3COM kept them all to themselves).
I was wrong on one thing though, this isn't 3Com/Commworks unloading a full clip on full automatic into their foot, this is dropping a 500 lb. *bomb* on their foot!
Yeah, that about sums it up. The only thing that keeps us with 3COM is the modems. If they drop support/features for the Quads we have then we have no reason to stay with 3COM. If Cisco had USR modems (AS5100 springs to mind) we'd be gone already. - 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.