Re: (ASCEND) Max 6000 problems.

[Steve Rothanburg <srothan@soc.lib.md.us>]

Yeah, I was a bit surprised when approximately one third of the Max
6000's we bought last summer to replace our 1600's and 4000's turned out
to not work. I've got 4 sites right now that seem to hate these 6000's
but work fine with their old 1600 or a TNT. I had to take 3 routers out
to one site just to get 1 that actually worked on their network. All had
the same config. I'll have to look into Nortel. Sounds sort of like what
the TNT was supposed to be. 

Was anyone else a little unnerved by the card Ascend/Lucent sent out
with the 6000 saying that if the ethernet didn't work with your hub to
try the cable they supplied? It really didn't/doesn't inspire much
confidence in their ability to do ethernet.

Troy Settle wrote:
> 
> I've had my share of problems with Ascend equipment, but nothing that bad.
> With 30+ boxes deployed, I've only had to RMA 1 of them.  If it wasn't for
> the fact that I know nothing about your or your experience, I'd be tempted
> to say that it was most likely an issue with the operator.
> 
> Anyways, for alternatives, I'd reccomend the CVX1800 from Nortel.  We've had
> one up for a month now, and have had 0 problems.   The box takes 1344 ports
> (2xDS3), soon up to 2688 ports.  You can fit 3 of the suckers on a rack, and
> they just work.  Configuration is a breeze once you understand the layout,
> and these things include support for nifty things like VOIP, SS7 signaling.
> The OS supports the concept of virutal POPs, policy based routing, etc...
> All in all, a very sweet box.
> 
> Contact your nearest Nortel rep.  You won't regret it.
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