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Re: (ASCEND) Testing Performance of Ascend P-130 vs Cisco 2503



No, but do those two have T1's with us? The names don't seem to ring a bell...

Luke



At 07:52 AM 11/13/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Would this happen to be John Ford or Randy Polito (in South Texas?)
>
>On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Luke Parrish wrote:
>
>> I have a customer in south Texas that is using the P-130 for a full T1. He
>> says that it holds up really well, never needs any kind of maintenance. He
>> was using a 2501 before this, and the command line interface(which i love)
>> was too much for him to mess with, so he went with the ascend since he has
>> pretty little menu's he can work with. So it will definatley hold the load
>> of a T1, but if you ask me, I would definately go 2500 series...
>> 
>> Ascend needs to stick to access servers, and leave the routers to Cisco. 
>> 
>> Just my opinion. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 09:16 PM 11/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>> >
>> >    I am currently setting up two customers on T1's.  The first customer
>> >will have a P-130 hooked to a P-130 at our locations, and the second
>> >customer will have a Cisco 2501 hooked to a 2503 at our location.
>> >
>> >    I have currently pre-setup the routers using a homemade cable to
>> >emulate the T1 and everything is working.  (The phone companies are late 
>> >with the T's)
>> >
>> >    Some people have claimed that the P-130 is not fast enough to handle
>> >a T1 and I want to test the claim.  Any ideas for testing schemes?  The
>> >first thing I was going to do was FTP some files to a host at my site
>> >and see if I can notice significant speed differences.  Any other ideas?
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >
>> >
>> >Bob Roswell
>> >broswell@syssrc.com
>> >System Source
>> >338 Clubhouse Road
>> >Hunt Valley; MD  21031
>> >(410) 771-5544
>> >www.syssrc.com
>> >
>> >
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