Brian wrote:
In its heyday, one could say the AOL(ans), mindspring, earthlink(?) used TC's........but companies do switch sometimes, and alot now run Ascend gear. worldcom i know is ascend, and I believe AOL is moving in more ascend. AOL always had ascend to do their kflex stuff.
But this is a good point, who are the large guys and what are they using today? Can anyone help fill in the chart?
AOL 3com/ascend (percentages?) splitrock(prodigy) Bay Worldcom(uunet) Ascend Mindspring 3com Cybergate 3com
anyone know abou the other big players?
AT&T (former IBM Global Network) uses 3Com and is migrating their entire Worldnet dialup to 3Com from what I have been told by AT&T. AT&T said they did extensive research after buying the IBM Global Network and determined that the 3Com NAS was superior on first time connections and overall throughput. Voyager switched from Cisco AS5248's to TC chassis (old Quads and new HiPers) in their Detroit POP since their IPO. Concentric uses Bay 5399, but Nortel is a major stockholder. Ziplink uses the Bay 5399, and again Nortel is a major stockholder. AOL no longer runs their network - they use WorldCom managed modem ports which run on Lucent Max TNT. Level3 uses Lucent Max TNT for their managed modem pools. FlashNet uses Lucent Max. Ameritech.net used to use 3Com, haven't seen one of their pops in a long time. MegaPop uses Lucent Max. BTW: The Bay is the worse NAS on the market, IMHO. If you want to talk about connection problems, buy a 5399. -Ron GLISnet, Inc. +1 810/939.9885 - 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.