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To: Greg Jung who wrote (9685)	10/16/1997 11:49:00 PM
From: Scott Rafe	of 77400

Greg: There is no mistake in the test results. The supposed total call capability of the TNT is a moot point since the thing falls on the floor and dies at less than half it's rated capacity. (In the report). Besides do you know _why_ the 5300 has 120 digital modems? Come on... E1 data lines have???? That's right! 30 channels. And 30 times four is??? Right again! In the US we use "T"1's right? And T1's have how many channels? 24. 24 times 4 is...? Ol' "Maverick" either needs to get his nomenclature straight or someone needs to proof-read. Additionally the 5300 is designed to be stacked with other 53 and 5200's which increases it's call capacity in a manageable and scalable fashion. In fact a specialized CIsco ISP system called AccessPath is built around (14!) 5300's as replaceable modules. The Cisco units appear to the management console as a single entity and will load balance calls across ALL modems in ALL chassis. I'd say that is some serious density. There are key features that allow for this which the TNT does not have. In fact, if you try to rack-mount TNT's together they start to smoke. There are even reports of _fire_. Yes as in burning. Check the Ascend user group on "bungi" for several reports of this. RE: News release on software update. Yet another Ascend software update? <yawn> Something special about this one? Hasn't fixed anything yet. According to the the post you cite the software patch fixes a problem where the modems connect below 56K and drop calls. This is NOT one of the many performance problems with the TNT mentioned in the Lanquest report. (Though it is another example of an oft repeated tale of Ascend using it's customers as beta sites.) Also, nothing in the post about the patch mentions fixing ISDN performance at all. In this (according to Lanquest) the TNT _really_ died. As far as "Cisco finishing 3rd"... for shame: How about referencing something a little newer than 1995! Here is a quote off the first page of that test. "This remote access server benchmark was conducted at LANQuest Labs in San Jose, California, in March 1995. The testing was conducted on a dedicated Ethernet test network, with a Novell NetWare v4.01 file server,..." Puleeeze... Besides all that, the Cisco AS52/5300's are also full _Cisco routers_. Which run 85% of the Internet(check any report)for very good reason.

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