[126262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fehring)
Mon May 10 13:03:56 2010
In-Reply-To: <017201caf060$f7e4bcd0$e7ae3670$@net>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:03:32 -0700
From: Bill Fehring <lists@billfehring.com>
To: Scott Berkman <scott@sberkman.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Jerry Bonner <JBonner@enventis.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I don't think that you can buy new support contracts for the AS5800 series
anymore.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iad/ps509/ps512/end_of_life_notice_c51-463159.html
-Bill
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:50, Scott Berkman <scott@sberkman.net> wrote:
> I think the only one under support may be the Cisco AS series (AS5800 only
> now?):
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/univgate/ps509/
>
> The other platform I knew besides the TNT was the Nortel CVX but it is EOL
> also.
>
> -Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Bonner [mailto:JBonner@enventis.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:29 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.
>
> I'm told by our Alcatel rep that the APX 8000 is no longer supported and
> that we can no longer get hardware support because they "don't have any
> spare parts".
>
> I share a certain amount of love for this platform dating back to Ascend,
> but what am I to do now? Obviously no one is making large investments in
> their dial platform, but are there any other viable alternatives out there
> that are actually supported?
>
> ~jerry
>
>
>
>
