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Re: (ASCEND) Maturity or Second Childhood
> I have not observed that the maturity of an Ascend product has any
> bearing on stability or reliable operation. In fact, our mature
> Ascend routers are the only unreliable components in our operation,
> while our Cisco products (like the new AS5200 we received from among
> the very earliest release which has worked flawlessly).
uhh... we had an as5200, and neither reseller or local Cisco could
make it work, even with IP-only, static routes.. it had horrible
performance and stability problems with 60 modems.
> Incidentally, Cisco has a web page that lists every test they perform for
> every software release, major or minor, that's very informative. Maybe the
> Ascend quality control people should look at it.
That's the main difference.. Sad to say, but I don't think there is much
to be proud of in Cisco sw quality. Also Cisco has myriads of bugs and
problems, but it's much easier to get the necessary information, and IF
you can send them enough debug data they even compile a special
version for you.. the ascend bug reporting system is a black hole, the
last blink before total darkness is the tracking number.
VesA
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