[62438] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Worst design decisions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Austad, Jay)
Thu Sep 18 10:26:18 2003
From: "Austad, Jay" <JAustad@temgweb.com>
To: 'Matt' <acheron@qwest.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:19:20 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sun Ultra Enterprise 3500. Three power supplies for redundancy, only *one*
power cord. You'd think that with something that originally cost 6 figures,
that this would have been thought out a bit more.
Oh, and 1U patch panels with only 12 ports in them annoy me.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt [mailto:acheron@qwest.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:43 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Worst design decisions?
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Was doing some upgrades on a UBR7246 (to a VXR), and I got to
> thinking
> about short sighted design considerations. I was curious if
> any of you
> had some pet peeves from a design perspective to rant about.
> I'll start
> with a couple.
>
> 1) Why did Cisco design the I/O controller on the 7246 with screws in
> the corner, which are very difficult to get at? And worse than that,
> why did they not include a cheap handle on the blank in this slot?
>
> 2) Why did Cisco not include side handles on the 12000
> chassis? It's a
> heavy chassis, and I can imagine how many techs have thrown out their
> back moving that chassis around.
>
> I've got a couple others in my head from 3Com and a couple of others,
> but I thought I'd get the ball rolling. So, what do you think?
>
>
