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To: Maverick who wrote (36117)	2/23/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: Peter Yang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

Anyone has any news about ASND's presentation at BARS today? Thanks,

To: Maverick who wrote (36117)	2/24/1998 2:37:00 AM
From: Marc Hyman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Dee Jay asks on the news-only thread: I'm struck by the "highly-available" phrase running throughout - has the sound of defensiveness to it (re the past) but at the same time this appears to be a product of significance. Lets say you are an up and coming ISP with 250,000 customers. You are a bit behind the times and still think you can get by with 1 port for every 10 users, so you have 25,000 ports. You're not quite big enough to use a TNT as your ports are spread out, so you are using the MAX and find that 50 ports/box is perfect. 25,000 ports thus translates to 500 Maxes. Now the Cisco release mentions 99.999 percent availability. That translates to about 5 minutes of down time per year. Not bad you may think. Ok, lets assume each box is down 5 minutes a year. With 500 boxes that averages to a box going down every 3/4 of a day. If I ran a network operations center and I had a box die every 3/4 of a day I wouldn't think "great", I'd probably beat up my vendor and threaten to throw him out in favor of the competition. And imagine how I'd feel when a new software release causes several boxes to go down every shift! I think cisco knows this and is pushing their "highly-available" feature as a result. The cisco reputation for reliability certainly doesn't hurt. // marc