Also sprach Curt Shambeau
I find it funny that people want to switch to Cisco because they will not support v92 on the Quad modems, yet Cisco is doing the same thing to their customers by not supporting the AS5200 and AS5xxx with MICA modems.
Of course, they can't do an easy software upgrade, but who knows that the future holds. Will everyone switch back to 3COM/Commworks when Cisco doesn't support the AS5300 on the next upgrade?
There has to be someplace to draw the line. Personally, I'd rather see 3COM put their R&D effort into the HiperDSP and QuadDSP. And yes, I still have Quad modems in my network... A whole boatload.
Please...don't even *try* to rag on Cisco for not supporting old hardware. I just checked this out to be sure of my numbers, but Cisco is not only still *supporting*, but is still *selling* their little 2500 routers. This product design is over 7 years old now. Cisco seems to provide hardware and software support for products that have reached end-of-sales for 2 or 3 *years* before they're end-of-life'd. Compare this to 3Com that will put a product in end-of-sales within a few years of announcing it, and will end-of-life a products within 6 months of end-of-sales. Cisco may not be perfect on supporting their older equipment, but at least they *try*...you can load 12.x IOS versions on the 2500's, TCS 4.0 doesn't have a version of code for the quads. I'm honestly amazed that people still seem to be proud to work for 3Com. If I worked there, I think I'd be walking around with a paper bag over my head because of their treatement of their customers...particularly their long-term customers. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - 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.