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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (19030)	10/26/1997 9:27:00 AM
From: Bobo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Excerpts from the trenches - TNT vs TC Hiper Part 1: This seems insightful regarding TNT's competition and its known problems. This is taken from an Ascend user mail list: > At 01:49 PM 10/24/97 -0500, Edward Henigin wrote: > > > > What about the high-density USR products? > > > > Their management software is very good.. at least, the X > >version is :) and you'll be able to get ~300 sessions in ~9in > >of rack space... and their modem connections are better than > >Ascend/Rockwell.. etc etc.. USR's management software good??? No way. It's awful. It's slow (even on a grunty UNIX), sparse (ooo! look! the lights blink on the picture just like the real thing) - you can't even ask the box over SNMP who's logged in!!! And before someone says it, reading the event table to figure it all out doesn't really count... And what's worse - you've got to plug it in twice to manage it! Yep, you have to give the box two ethernet cards/IP addresses, and ask different questions of different cards. The hypercard version (16/modems card instead of 4) is only slightly better - you have to plug it in only three times. :( As for modem connectivity, our testing shows it's considerably worse than the Max. If you don't have a USR modem, don't expect a good connect speed. The Max sure isn't perfect, and the TNT is worse. But that doesn't seem to make other manufacturers angels... People in the access server market are going to have to get their shit together real fast...

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (19030)	10/26/1997 9:30:00 AM
From: Bobo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

TNT vs TC Hiper Part 2: Again, taken from an Ascend user mail list: On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, MegaZone wrote: > It basically nothing more than a dense modem/ISDN rack, lacking advanced > comm server features of the other vendors. And a brand new OS is always > a joy. Dead right. You have to reboot it to change just about anything - default gateways, RADIUS servers, etc... All require you to reboot to make the changes take effect. I thought rebooting to recognise basic changes was the sort of thing that went out with the ark. This thing ain't carrier class - barely enterprise, in fact.