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Re: (ASCEND) Ascend bashing- actually these guys aren't all th



In my experience with mail lists, they have always been a platform for 
bashing.  Every manufacturer has a maillist and they all get bashed!  
Sometimes it is helpful to get the manufacturers attention but sometimes it 
gets old.  

About 8 months ago, I researched different remote access vendors and found 
Ascend to have the best product... the MAX TNT.  Unfortunately I cannot add 
any comments about the older MAX products but the TNT is a great piece of 
equipment and I have had great success with their Pipeline 75 as well.

As for the TAC, I have had great support there too!  I didn't say that I 
didn't have any problems to overcome, I did.  But the Ascend engineers were 
very helpful and concerned.  My local Ascend SE even stays intouch by 
e-mail to check on my status... even when no problems exist.

Bash'em all you like but my choice for a remote access vendor will continue 
to be Ascend.

Mitch
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Original Text
From: John Coy <jcoy@anc.net>, on 2/24/98 1:49 PM:
To: "Eric R. Larsen" <eric@istal.com>
Cc: <ascend-users@max.bungi.com>

I have to concur with Eric's statements.  I run a medium-sized network 
with over 40 Ascend MAXen and they all perform very well.  Other than some
glitches with code upgrades (ie: functionality being different on
routing entries from 5.0Ap36 to 5.0Ap42), I've been very happy with
our Ascend products.

I wonder if some of the difficulty others experience may be caused
by configuration issues?  Or perhaps they are using the MAX for
tasks for which it was not designed?  I use all my MAXen for
switched dialup access (ISDN or modem), and run RIPv2 back to a 
Cisco core router.  Rather than have the MAX perform every task
(terminal server, router, etc), I let it do the one thing it does well.

*shrug*

Just my $0.02 worth on Ascend products.


At 10:26 PM 2/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>For all the Ascend bashing I've done with the problems with modem
connections early on, and their Radius program, Access Control, which
leaves a lot to be desired by Winnt users, I have to admit the MAX4048 I
bought back in June last year has performed like a trooper. No down time,
and outside the month or so I dealt with the irritation of the memory leak
last year, the system has operated almost worry free. 
>
>Eric 
>Internet Services of Tallahassee
>
>On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, James M Bass Esq. wrote:
>> 42 seems very stable for kflex/rip...  We have had record uptimes! (More
>> than 2 weeks!)
>> 
>
>. our Linux dialin servers have 70 weeks uptime - why did I think
>we should change to an Ascned? :-/
>- franz penz
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