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'm not *trying* to rag on Cisco. My point was that people are all up in arms about v.92 not being supported on the Quad modems, and are threatening to go buy Cisco RAS gear, when Cisco is not supporting v.92 on older equipment either. Isn't there some irony in that? I sure think so. I'm not always thrilled with 3COM, but in this case, I *personally* feel it was not a bad decision to stick v92 on HDM & newer equipment. The code base for the quad modem is very ugly, and would no doubt entail a LOT of R&D to get it up to speed on v92, v44, v59, and whatever else may need to be modified. Heck... Is there even enough space for all that code on the quad modems? Back a few years ago I remember them having to pull support for things like v.terbo to fit the new v.90 code into Couriers. Didn't they pull it from quad modem support as well, because of code size?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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.