Also sprach Mark Thornton
Had a good talk with Tom from 3Com in my office last week. The V.92 upgrade will not be an extra cost item other than the fact you must have a contract to get the download.
Hrmm...ok...I was under the impression that it would be a feature enable on the NMC...which I guess doesn't necessarily equate to added-cost, so that doesn't absolutely prove my thoughts wrong, but it does make them less likely.
The quads apparently don't have the available space and processing power to handle V.92,
Space, sort of...there are so many obsolete protocols supported in the quads that could be removed with no damage to their functionality that its not funny (HST anyone?). Not having enough processing power is a bunch of hooey. It takes less processing power to convert PCM samples to data then it does an analog waveform.
Not sure why the requirement for the hipernmc but the old ones are too slow anyway for larger chassis configurations.
Sure...I have a chassis with 8 DSPs on it with a 486 NMC...and its certainly feeling it, but it is useable with it. Once again, 3Com EOL'ing a product for no good reason.
The primary reservation I have against paying for support and upgrading has to do with 'end of life on the hiperarc's and hipernmc's.
Amen to that. I don't even own a single HiPer NMC and they're already being EOL'ed? That's a joke. -- 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.