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Re: (ASCEND) 1800's and how hard they blow.
At 09:38 1998/09/03 -0400, Jason Nealis wrote:
>This just doesn't make any sense, For 2 years now I have played this
>upgrade game on my 1800's looking for stability, and still the engineering
>department @ ascend that is responsible for the 1800's, (Lynn Ally) has
>been UNABLE to give me code that can stay up for more than 2 weeks without
>rebooting.
For heavy usage or complex environments like yours or my own,
you are right they do have a lot of problems.
However, for a startup ISP or a small corporate WAN they seem to do well.
For almost two years after we began dialup and perm/dialed IP service
over ISDN using a few 1800's they did work for us, but we eventually ran into
the usual 8 BRI loaded box loosing clock sync, or OSPF routing problems
that pushed us to bigger boxes (Max 4000).
>If anyone out there is looking to deploy 1800's in their environment
>to terminate BRI traffic, I suggest heavily that you look away from the
>1800 and maybe towards the Cisco 3600 w/ BRI ports.
If one is planning to put a full 8 BRI into the box on day one,
and do OSPF with several other boxes, or "stack" multiple 1800s
the cisco device is probably a better path, but the Max 1800 does
work in some environments, and after all everyone that buys them
is not nescecarily an ISP... If your demands are heavy, 24x7 use,
routing multiple subnets over dial-on-demand links that could
connect to any of a number of NASes, and fully dynamic routing,
then the 1800 can't always keep up, at least not for us anymore.
-Jim H
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