North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Ascend GRF400
> > The interesting products now are the IP/SONET OC3c card and the OC12 card > that should turn up one day. They are available, we are using them at the moment and so far not a dropped packet. > > The attraction to us for buying this product is the BSDi OS used at the > management controller. We have somewhat unusual requirements, including our > own internal protocol for dynamic routing of dialups, and the availability > of the BSDi environment behind Ascends new CLI makes this one of the few > real routers that works off the shelf. > Indeed, using gated on this box rules. > We currently have one in house, and once some SNMP issues are fixed we will > be able to complete testing and then maybe buy some. > > As to who is using them in a production environment, I understand from > colleagues that a recent "supercore" upgrade that PSI did in NY (where we > peer with them) was to roll out one or more GRF's. This is of course > unconfirmed rumour until someone from PSInet speaks up. > Cool. Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. D O M I N O [email protected] NetBSD/sparc - 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">Computer!</A> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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