We are demoing a 5400 from Cisco and I can tell you that it doesn't give any better performance than the Total Control. We don't have their CiscoWorks software so I'm not sure what it can do, but I REALLY like TCManager for figuring out problems. We are about to decide to stay all 3Com but the v92 issue (or lack of issues <grin) is alarming. We'll see what the hype is at ISPCon. Brian Brian Becker President, Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc. (www.semo.net) Home of TotallyFabricated.com Software: Total Scrutinizer (www.TotalScrutinizer.com) - Tech Support Just Got Easier! WebGabber (www.WebGabber.com) - html-based Chat Software -----Original Message----- From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Lists Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:38 PM To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: (usr-tc) V.92
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.
Our point is that if we have to spend money upgrading, we'll probably spend it on Cisco after the treatment we've had from 3COM. We stay with 3COM because it does the job and a change would be expensive. If we have to spend money... - 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. - 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.
Brian Becker (brian@semo.net) wrote:
We are demoing a 5400 from Cisco and I can tell you that it doesn't give any better performance than the Total Control.
We're demoing an AS5300 right now and are pretty happy with it. The only items still pending evaluation are the PIAFS code and Cisco Works, but if we don't hit a showstopper, we've probably bought our last 3Com RAS. Do you plan to put Cisco support into Total Scrutinizer, BTW?
We don't have their CiscoWorks software so I'm not sure what it can do, but I REALLY like TCManager for figuring out problems.
TCM is a very good product, and I will certainly be comparing CiscoWorks against that standard. In fact, TCM is what we like best about 3Com gear. As you say, it's pretty good for figuring out problems (basic ones, anyway). But then, so is the debugging output in IOS :-) Cheers, Jonathan Byrne, CCNA Network Engineer - 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.
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