Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 10:16:20 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interface card to connect 64k..256k to connect to internet Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970516101616.00c13634@etinc.com>
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At 01:50 PM 5/15/97 -0700, you wrote: >Thanks to all for the feedback on this; it's been illuminating. My >take is that the case for the quad-sync card at an ISP or a corporat >headquarters is stronger than that for the single-sync card in a >remote-office or ISP-customer setting. Price certainly is a factor, >and personally, at $1K for a PCI-based, single-T1 card, I find it a >hard sell compared to a Pipeline 130 with an integrated CSU *and* a >BRI port for, say, $1300. (And I can't say that I found derisive >quote marks around the word "handle" in "handle a T1", or references >to brands of automobiles, persuasive.) Well, you know what they say..."you can't educate the woodchucks"... Thanks for sharing your intellectual findings with us! Based on what you've said I think that we will discontinue all of our single port products because there is clearly no market for them. :-) Dennis
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