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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Gigarouter
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:35:55 -0200 (EDT) Rogerio Alvarez - DRS23 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > Anyone there has any information (experience) about Gigarouters like > GRF1600 (Ascend) or > GSR12000 (Cisco). > We have GRF-400, [a 4 port version of the 1600] it initially worked good. I like GateD and Ascend added some cool features. However we had issues with scalibilty on the box. PPS performace isn't the biggest issue you should be worried about. Management and support is important. Managing the GRF isn't easy. Support from Ascend wasn't all that hot either. The ATM card on it has some real problems though. You can't add PVC's reliably to it. We've heard that other IF cards have packet corruption problems. Some updates [1.4.6] have broken just about every feature in the box and we got to the stage that it wasn't good business sense to continue to use the machine. Cisco and IOS have a lot of maturity that Ascend, and I suspect people like Juniper, Torrent, NN, and Packet Engines don't have. Meaning that one day it may work well but for the time being its just to risky. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. [email protected] NetBSD-1.3 released! ftp://ftp.uk.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/";>computer!</A>
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