Charles Sprickman wrote:
I was amazed by the equipment 3Com brought to ISPCON. The TC2000 platform was incredible... supports like 52,000 lines max over a 6 chassis setup... too bad it won't do dial up for at least a year yet... Oh, and will cost as much as the space shuttle.
Cool to look at, but I regularly visit a number of colo centers with lots of dial equipment... Remember Lucent's big push on the PM-4 or whatever that gigantic expensive thing they had was?? I've yet to see one anywhere, but I see plenty of TCs, even more TNTs, and a smattering of that beige Nortel junk. Prediction...? 3Com sells 10 of them and their stock continues to sputter along on LAN card and switch sales.
I've seen some PM4's in production around Detroit. Dunno what good they would be since they've been EOL'ed, same with the PM3 now. Any bugs in the code are locked in, they just threw out a new release last week, announced end of life on the PM3 and shut down production last Friday. So I guess any ISP using a PM3 won't be seeing V.92. I wouldn't touch a piece of Lucent gear or any of that goofy junk I get postcards on with a 10 foot pole. I've had a very good experience with my USR equipment since I upgraded everything to HiPer.
From what I've seen of the TC2000 equipment, it looks like it's designed to be a huge VoIP to PSTN gateway.
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