On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Matt Holdrege wrote: > One thing that should be quite obvious to anyone in this field is that > product life cycles are very short. Each vendor must be actively working on > the next generation as soon as the current generation is released. Or > sooner! There are and will always be incremental and forklift product > upgrades for all of our major products. The same goes for any vendor. Nope. In the carrier-class world - one I understand you aspire to :) - we have equipment in service for decades. Our switches have Z80A processors as primary rate controllers. Hardly new technology. Maxes have cause codes for various events - exchanges have error codes for "date in billing ticket expected in BCD format, but failed integrity check." Different paradigm.... > Most of the issues on this list are Max/TNT related and that is where we > have admittedly had reliability problems. This is where the growth of the > company is most noticed. We have set new policies in place to accommodate > our new status, but these things take a bit of time. If the market wasn't > so rushed to get new features like 56K modems, we wouldn't be talking about > this. But that's the case. You'll be hearing more about a new controlled > software release process and other enhancements in due time. The market is rushed? Or you're rushing to market? The difference here seems blurred to me. ;) - -- Josh Bailey (<A HREF="mailto:joshb@xtra.co.nz">mailto:joshb@xtra.co.nz</A> - GroupWise <A HREF="mailto:j6bw@telecom.co.nz">mailto:j6bw@telecom.co.nz</A>) Internet Network Specialist Voice (DDI): +64-9-355-5923 Telecom Internet Services Voice (Mob): +64-25-514-899 Extension: 93423 (Lvl. 4, 120 Mayoral Dve) Fax: +64-9-355-5260 Private Bag 92028, Auckland, NZ Pager: +64-26-114-448 PGP public key available at <A HREF="http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html">http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html</A> DISCLAIMER: Viewer discretion is advised. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNGOYb/le+GEe9W4hAQGdjgL/RWLSQ5rm67SncjW6UJ1A1UwoVlaO+xTd Ub0mNcl79TB5tZg51rnt19w1yIxMMBJJ5O+7cfdSdQftTFBRTzDNhoBk5p/YfY4s f39s7yvg4B3TwOpi/sT2sX001woao6GH =ttlb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq">http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <STRONG>Follow-Ups</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg10558.html">Re: (ASCEND) Ascend stock (fwd)</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com></LI> </UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg10546.html">Re: (ASCEND) Ascend stock (fwd)</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg10539.html">Re: (ASCEND) Ascend stock (fwd)</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg10548.html">Re: (ASCEND) Ascend stock (fwd)</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg10545.html">Re: (ASCEND) Ascend stock</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg10539.html">Re: (ASCEND) Ascend stock (fwd)</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg10546.html">Re: (ASCEND) Ascend stock (fwd)</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="maillist.html#10552"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd233.html#10552"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>