Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 16:00:28 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> Cc: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: T1 upgrade options? Message-ID: <2735.868489228@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jul 1997 17:44:27 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970709172542.3136A-100000@lightning.tbe.net>
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I have to agree that Ciscos are worth the money, if only for all the little "creature comfort" features in installation and setup you get which are far more engineer-friendly than anything I've seen with Livingston. I worked exclusively with cisco equipment for some time before finally doing some work for an ISP with a Portmaster PM2r box - the difference was like night and day and, frankly, the Portmaster's admin interface is so funky that it made me less chagrined at the state of our own installation tools. If a commercial outfit can get away with that, it leaves hope that our own tools won't be judged too harshly. :-) To use a car analogy, Cisco basically produces the Cadillacs of the router world whereas Livingston makes Yugos and Ascend makes VWs. :-) Not everyone needs, wants or can afford a Cadillac, but many of those features are nice to have if you're going to drive a car at all. Similarly, the "VW" is cheap but of reasonably good quality and the Yugo, well, you buy one of those when cost is the #1 consideration and you are resigned to the fact that it'll be no fun to drive and also perhaps spend some amount of time by the side of the road, waiting for the tow-truck. :-) Jordan
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