[rescue] Oh, It gets better! (Was : Well, isn't that special. )

[Chris Byrne]

Ascend is owned by Lucent, and they are no longer in the consumer router
market choosing to specialize in large business, ISP, and and telco
solutions.

You might also try for foundry, or extreme. Also if you are looking to do
point to point vpn not just routing I would highly recommend Nokia.

Chris Byrne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fogg, James" <JFogg at vicinity.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: RE: [rescue] Oh, It gets better! (Was : Well, isn't that special. )


> Well, there's Nortel (#2 in market) and Motorola (#3 in market). I don't
> know if Ascend is still kicking.
>
> I have always like Motorola, especially if doing voice over frame relay. I
> find Nortel (Bay/Wellfleet) difficult to deal with from the command-line,
> but once programmed enough to see an ethernet port their gui works.
>
> I like Cisco, but only for infrastructure stuff. Cisco (or any other
router
> manufacturer) wouldn't be my first choice for a network card. What they
are
> really saying here is "we shouldn't have entered that business and now
want
> out of it". Most big companies will do this to a dead product line. Cisco
> offers excellent support for their primary product lines.
>
> James Fogg, Network Engineer
> Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
> (603) 442-1751
>
> ~ -----Original Message-----
> ~ From: George Adkins [mailto:george at webbastard.org]
> ~ Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:53 PM
> ~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> ~ Subject: [rescue] Oh, It gets better! (Was : Well, isn't that
> ~ special.)
> ~
> ~
> ~ > Recently aquired two cisco wa-C301T S-Bus FDDI interfaces.
> ~ >
> ~ > Cisco, however, in their infinitessimal wisdom, wants me to
> ~ buy a service
> ~ > contract on two 10 year old NIC's before they will *Allow*
> ~ me to download
> ~ > the Solaris drivers.
> ~ >
> ~ I talk to the Service Contract 'People', and I find out that
> ~ they won't sell
> ~ me a service contract for the parts, since they are not
> ~ installed in Cisco
> ~ Equipment...
> ~
> ~ you can't have the driver without a service contract...
> ~ you can't have a service contract, even if you wanted to pay for it...
> ~ you can't have the driver (Besides, we're going to EOL it in
> ~ Jan of 2003!)
> ~
> ~ FSCKing Cisco...  and to think I was going to buy Cisco
> ~ routers to connect
> ~ the California and Florida remote offices when their
> ~ connectivity comes up
> ~ online.
> ~
> ~ Who else makes decent routers?
> ~
> ~ George
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