[126280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Mon May 10 18:36:52 2010
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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:36:16 +1200 (NZST)
From: "Mark Foster" <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: "Bill Fehring" <lists@billfehring.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Does this not highlight a wider issue?
I realise that dialup is hardly 'cutting edge' but there are providers out
there with a significant number of dialup customers still on the books.
Surely there's still a market for (what should be by now) a
straightforward, well known piece of kit?
In parts of the world where broadband is not ubiquitous and dialup remains
useful as a Plan-B or is simply the only choice (for whatever reason),
what are the practical choices now?
Whilst folks may not be fielding 'new' dialup kit, I dare say that we're
going to be continuing to see dialup customers on the books for the next 5
years, perhaps a lot longer? That's a whole product lifespan...
On Tue, May 11, 2010 5:03 am, Bill Fehring wrote:
> 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.
>>
