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Re: (ASCEND) Big modem pool
There was a fire sale on 4048's just before the 6000's came out about a
month ago. We needed about 800 ports so the timing was perfect and now
have a ungodly stack of 4048's - I would have prefered the TNT for all the
reasons you outline but the cost was 3X hard to justify.
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Joe Pautler wrote:
> Jason Nealis wrote:
> ]
> ] Hmm, 3 Times as much? Many people price points differ, but on a port
> ]to port ratio the TNT should be in the same ball-park as the 4xxx's.
>
> nope, it's definitely not. the cost per line for the tnt is
> substantially more than the cost per line for the equivalent number
> of 40xx's. i've just been struggling with that over the last month
> or so. for us, lines via T3 are the same price as lines via a T1
> (long story), so i had to use arguments such as: reliability, redundancy,
> maintenance time (1 TNT stack vs 10+ 40xx's), support, etc, etc, etc.
> it was a very difficult process. (of course, i'd rather manage
> one tnt stack instead of 15 40xx's....supporting dialin users
> is only supposed to be a *portion* of my job :)
>
> (fyi: i was doing pricing for about 600 lines....the difference between
> the two scenarios was about $25k, or $40/line.)
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Joe Pautler, E.I.T. University at Buffalo
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