Re: [USR-TC] Anybody have v.92 working yet?
Also sprach Paul Farber
But again, 3Com/Commworks says that if you have 50 DSP's, and only 25 of them are in an areas where you can even get v.90 to work you need to pay for all 50.
This is the crux of the matter. Because of CommWorks support contract policies, continuing to upgrade the TC equipment is a non-starter. CommWorks *STILL* after, what, 4 or 5 years of me and others screaming about it, needs to get their support contract policies in line with the industry. Equal coverage across the TC products makes continued support of the TC equipment a non-starter here. I also, personally, will not buy another thing from CommWorks/3Com as long as Al Huefner is employed there. When he's gone and the support contract policies are revised, *then* I'll consider purchasing more equipment and support contracts. Al Huefner is single-handedly, through CommWorks support contract policies, responsible for the demise of the TC1000 equipment line as the premier NAS for ISPs. That mantle belongs to Cisco now...their Universal Port/Any Service Any Port (ASAP) support is light-years ahead of what CommWorks has. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Al Huefner is single-handedly, through CommWorks support contract policies, responsible for the demise of the TC1000 equipment line as the premier NAS for ISPs. That mantle belongs to Cisco now...their Universal Port/Any Service Any Port (ASAP) support is light-years ahead of what CommWorks has.
How is the pricing/port density going for Cisco? I haven't looked at it for awhile. I'm still looking to move off of the TC equipment... or at least _only_ buying it used. ----Steve Stephen Amadei Dandy.NET! CTO Atlantic City, NJ
Also sprach Stephen Amadei
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Al Huefner is single-handedly, through CommWorks support contract policies, responsible for the demise of the TC1000 equipment line as the premier NAS for ISPs. That mantle belongs to Cisco now...their Universal Port/Any Service Any Port (ASAP) support is light-years ahead of what CommWorks has.
How is the pricing/port density going for Cisco? I haven't looked at it for awhile. I'm still looking to move off of the TC equipment... or at least _only_ buying it used.
I haven't gotten any official quotes, but the AS5350's that I've looked at end up being roughly $250-$300 per port, which is roughly what I remember that we were paying for TC gear (been a while since we've bought any). So, for roughly the same per-port cost, you get fully-upgradeable modem support (the nextport modems in the 5350, 5400 and 5850 are *completely* DSP based, unlike the older MICA type modems), as well as seamless voice, fax, and ISDN support as well. These things can literally take calls on the same PRI, one call being a modem call, one being an ISDN call, one being a fax call (T.38 fax over IP), one being a voice call gateway'ed to h.323, or sip, the next can be tdm switched out to another PRI going to another piece of equipment (yes, the 5350 can do network-side PRI...I currently have the 5350 that I'm demo'ing running network-side NI-2 plugged into a dual-pri card in a TC chassis...so I can place a h.323 call to the 5350 as a gateway and get modem tones from the TC) The 5350's are *way* more flexible in what they can do than the TC equipment is...and of course you get all of the protocols support that IOS offers you, OSPF that actually works correctly, and large numbers of other routing protocols that CommWorks hasn't even *thought* about supporting on Arcs yet. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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