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- From: nabil@ogicse.ogi.edu (Aaron Nabil)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
- Subject: Netblazer vs CS-500, bang vs buck?
- Message-ID: <46018@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:54:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.46018
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- Organization: Explosive Space Modulators - R - Us
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- Since my inquiry re: CS-500 vs ASM perormance has simply set the newsgroup
- abuzz with followups, lemme try something else.
-
- My company needs to pick a platform for async access to our network. The
- choices are the Netblazer (cheap) vs the Cisco families (nice). We need
- to make the right choice now, since we want to commit to a platform that
- we can be happy with over the next n years. We're probably looking at
- about 160 ports over the next 2 years.
-
- The reliabilty is sorta important, for example we just ordered a
- Hayes Millenium 8000 series (which is INCREDIBLY overpriced), but it looks
- like a real SOLID piece of engineering. They also have some intriguing
- future plans for the platform, but that's another story...
-
- Some advantages of the Netblazer...
- 1 box can support 24 ports
-
- ISDN ready (?)
-
- Cheap(er). Note that this may be peculiar to our situation,
- we have about a zillion of their 8 port boards lying around.
- (Anyone need any?)
-
- Good support for dialup modems (scripts, configs, etc..)
-
- THEY WILL ACTUALLY TAKE MY MONEY AND ONE WILL SHOW UP
- ON MY DOORSTEP IN A REASONABLE TIME FRAME.
-
-
- Netblazer disadvantages...
- It's a complex system with lots of components, lower MTBF
-
- No Xremote
-
- Cisco advantages...
- Well, hey, it's a Cisco! Ie, it's probably going to work
- in very short order after we plug it in.
-
- CS-500 is a small, simple, reliable platform.
-
- IGRP? OSPF?
-
- Cisco disadvantages...
- Zillion year wait to get one. Christ, I'd like to just
- *borrow* one, how long is the waiting list for that?
-
- Can anyone who has, or had, both give me some feedback? I think it's
- noteworthy that Alternet is choosing Netblazers...
-
- --
- Aaron Nabil
- nabil@cse.ogi.edu
-