(ASCEND) Celebrity Death Match

["T. D. Wolf" <direwolf@ritalin.shout.net>]

Our Cisco Access Servers stay up for six months or more -- we
reboot when we upgrade software or lose a UPS.  I've been reading
this list for two years.  Ascend users brag about uptimes of two
weeks.

We're getting great connect speeds with the MicroCom modems.  
The V.90 code wasn't released 'til after Ascend had it in the
beta and incremental releases.  But it was pretty solid from
the beginning, and Cisco didn't break 10 other things at the
same time.  We have outstanding compatibility with our clients'
modems.  A lot of Ascend users still complain they don't have
a stable V.90 release.

OSPF and interchassis stacking work correctly.  Turning on
stacking with our Ascend Maxes only made them that much flakier.

If you have any Cisco AS5xxx series boxes that disappointed you
and you want to get rid of them cheap, please send them here.
I'll swap for Max 1800's.  And maybe a Pipeline or two.  The 
Netopia and Bay Networks routers interoperate with the real world
much better.

Mike Berger
Shouting Ground Technologies, Inc.


> ------------------------------
> 
> From: Joe  Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:13:14 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] Re: (ASCEND) How Ascend should fix thier software problem
> 
> The 5300 and 5800's are much more powerful beasties than the 5200, which
> is by far the worst POS for RAS on the market.  That's where the problem
> lies.  Well, that and the microcom modems.  They currently use Mica
> modems, corrct?
> 
> - --
> Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net    
> Freelance Computer Security Consultant and Perl Programmer
> Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
> 
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