Ummm, what do you do with the TNT? We have 15-20 in production. I would never recommend them again. We purchased most of them as Ascend and they were great, mostly because if you found a bug you could call an engineer for free and they would have a fix shortly there after. Why, because a 'feature' you paid for was disfunctional. Now that Lucent is in charge.... well lets just say you can't even talk to a live person with out punching in a credit card #, and you have to do that just to walk through newbie troubleshooting to identify the problem. So, right now all they do is switched t1's and modems... and they can handle that usually. We have recently had 2 tnt's suddenly die of bit rot or something. When I emailed support and our sales rep, what I got was a pitch for the new TNT's that were on sale and included the v.92 modems..... Yeah, like I'm gonna by more of something thats broke with out an answer as to why! On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Troy Settle wrote: > > I've been using Max 4k and 6k boxes for about 5 years now. A year and a > half ago, I started working with the Nortel CVX, and at the time it showed > great promise, but was still a very immature product. From what I've heard, > it's not changed much in the last year. > > 6 months ago, I finally got hands on with a TNT and now I own 2 of them. I > don't like what Lucent has done with the product (support contracts, pay for > firmware, etc). They're going to be scaring a lot of people away from a > perfectly good platform. > > Now, for the PM3, what is it about them that people like so much? In a > previous life, I inherited a few of them, and I must say that I didn't much > care for them at all (then again, at the time, I was rather spoiled by the > Max 6k). > > Hands down, the TNT is king, and I'll stick with it until I'm able to grow > into an APX. By that time, Lucent's support costs probably won't seem so > bad. > > -- > Troy Settle > Pulaski Networks > 540.994.4254 - 866.477.5638 > http://www.psknet.com > > > ** -----Original Message----- > ** From: owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com > ** [mailto:owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of Chris Adams > ** Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:48 PM > ** To: ascend-users at max.bungi.com > ** Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Re: The death of Lucent/Ascend a.k.a. re: v.92 > ** rip-off > ** > ** > ** Once upon a time, Anssi Sallinen <anssi.sallinen at jippiigroup.com> said: > ** > Chris Adams wrote: > ** > > We aren't real happy with the TNT, but from what we can find > ** (looking at > ** > > 3Com/Commworks, Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel), the TNT fits our needs best. > ** > > Where oh where is the true PortMaster replacement? :-( > ** > > ** > I must agree on you comments on PortMaster. Have you tested Nortel CVS? > ** > We are running a mixed system of TNT's, MAX'es and Nortel CVS's and I > ** > must say that we are quite happy with the Nortels. > ** > ** Well, I read some not-so-flattering things about the Nortel from several > ** people (mostly reliability things and some problems working with RADIUS > ** because they do their own thing with VSAs). Because of that (and the > ** price of replacing all of our current equipment) we decided to stick > ** with the TNTs. > ** -- > ** Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> > ** Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > ** I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > ** ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ > ** To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com > ** Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/ > ** > ** > > ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ > To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com > Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/ > ***************************************** Mick Dobra Systems Administrator MTCO Communications 1-800-859-6826 ***************************************** ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/