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Re: terminal server recommendation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Lapolito)
Tue May 1 22:09:21 2001

From: Joe Lapolito <jlapolit@navipath.com>
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 "from just me. at May 1, 2001 06:42:26 pm"
To: matt@snark.net
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:01:23 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Joe Lapolito <jlapolit@navipath.com>,
	Charles Smith <chasmith9@hotmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Sorry to hear that, we have had great luck with them.  We  have
WTI modems and term servers that have been in the field working
without any problems as our extremely important out of band access 
for over 3 years. 

Of course as with all things YMMV, as Matto pointed out.

-Joe

> 
> I was forced to try and make WTI crap do useful stuff.
> 
> It made me bleed from my eyes.
> 
> Fair warning: this stuff is complete garbage.
> 
> matto
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Joe Lapolito wrote:
> 
>   
>   We use Western Telematic stuff and have been very happy with it.
>   
>   They make small inexpensive serial terminal servers, 1U rackmounts.
>   They also make a great 19" rack mount Modem.  The best part is
>   they both come in DC flavor so no ugly wall warts on unclean house
>   power.
>   
>   www.wti.com
>   
>   -Joe
>   
>   > I would like to deploy a terminal server in several of my POPs, however cost 
>   > is a slight issue. Can anyone on the list recommend a fairly inexpensive 
>   > terminal server (besides Cisco)? Obviously the terminal server should be 
>   > reliable and work - it is the little things that count.
>   > 
>   > chas
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 


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