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Re: (ASCEND) In Defense Of Ascend...
I thought Id put our $0.02 worth in.
We too run a large National Network - all supported by Ascend products and
LINUX as the core servers.
We don't use Linux for the reason thats its basically free, but, the power and
reliability of it way out performs that of the commercial OS's such as NT,
Solaris, SCO, etc etc.
If NT was as powerful and flexible, we'd use that - only a few extra hundred
bucks per server.
I think Ascend gear is great. We use them everywhere (lots of Max1800's) for
our access servers on FR and ISDN. The only gripe I have about them is no BGP.
Adam
>
> FYI, Just let it be known, That here at Erols we use LINUX all over
> the network from accounting servers to authentication server to WWW
> servers to DNS servers.
>
> We even developed a radius that is far more optimized for speed then
> just about anything out there, LINUX has a BIG presence out
> in the ISP industry.
>
> Jason Nealis
> Erols Internet
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, David Lesher wrote:
>
> > Matt Holdrege sez:
> > > >This is simply solved by picking a stable distribution of Linux and
> > > >supporting that. Redhat or Caldera would probably be a good choice.
> > >
> > > Ah, but which one? Who chooses? And what about all those ISP's that use
> > > FreeBSD and NetBSD? Another thought. If you are going to pay for an Ascend
> > > commercial software product, why not pay for a Unix commercial product?
> >
> > Well, RedHat has a major effort underway to work with commercial
> > folks....
> >
> > There are several reasons RH Linux is getting widespread use in
> > commercial settings; cost is often the least of them.. And if it
> > an issue; every cent spent on the OS is money not available to
> > send on Ascend gear.....
> >
> >
> > --
> > A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
> > & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
> > Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
> > is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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