Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:42:54 -0500 From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@phoenix.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Development Message-ID: <3181354E.2781@phoenix.net>
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Greetings. Im not sure really where to start..so Ill be simple. Im the Operations Engineer at Texas' largest ISP, Phoenix Data Net, and the only ISP to provide satellite links into Central and South america for dollars a day to the general public. We are a $20Mil company teamed with Charter Communications, and are growing rapidly nationally and internationally. We perform many intensive WAN services, and to get to the point, build fully redundant multiprotocol gateways for fortune 100 companies throughout the world. We use FreeBSD to the exclusion of only the DEC Alpha fileservers in our ISP operations globally, and wish to greatly expand our use of FreeBSD into our WAN integration department. We use what is called Cubix equipment. Its is similar to rack mounted PCs, but is built completely around redundancy, whether it be hardware failures, or power events. We ship nearly $4million a year in this hardware, and we see a huge market for FreeBSD as part of the multiprotocol gateways we design with this equipment...mainly as firewall hardware. Cubix is _very_ interested in seeing FreeBSD support for thier hardware, and it would be a great boost to thier sales, which already reach $300Mil a year. I have two people familiar with the FreeBSD development program, John Perry, and Gary Clark within our staff. One as an employee, and the other as contract. I want to know who I can talk to to get some solid resources on contract to develop FreeBSD into Cubix hardware. Cubix hardware is a highly optimized PC, 486 or Pentium(tm) based. Our 486s work great, but the new P's have built in AMD SCSI and 10bT controllers, which FreeBSD does not acknowledge. We are very serious about a team working with this hardware. We belive in FreeBSD, and it is building a solid International presence with is now. Please point me in the right direction. Geoff Mohler Operations Engineer Phoenix Data Net
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