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Asante Products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Allen Underwood)
Tue Mar 22 13:00:30 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 12:27:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Jack Allen Underwood <Jack.A.Underwood@med.umich.edu>
Reply-To: Jack Allen Underwood <Jack.A.Underwood@med.umich.edu>
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Cc: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu
In-Reply-To: <9403211732.AA24456@asante.asante.com>
I would highly recommend Asante products to anyone considering using them
to build virtually any size ethernet network. We have been using most of
the Asante product line for more than two years. This includes more than
2000 Macintosh ethernet cards, 100 eight port hubs, 50 twelve port
non-managed hubs, 100 twelve port managed hubs, 25 bridge/hubs, and 50
chassis hubs (2072). Needless to say I would be crazy not to recommend
their products. We have had very few problems and have always received
good support in getting them resolved, even before we became a high volume
customer. We recently purchased 11 fully loaded 2072 hubs one week and
received them the next. The University of Michigan recently picked Asante
products to be used for their residence hall networking project too. If
anyone would like further information about Asante I'd be glad to reply.
Feel free to call me at the number listed below. No, I'm not a paid
Asante salesperson, just a very satisfied customer!
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Jack A. Underwood Jr. Network Analyst Jack.Underwood@med.umich.edu
Office of Health Sciences Information Technology & Networking
University of Michigan Medical Center, B1911 CFOB
1414 Catherine Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0704 (313) 747-2778
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> We're on the verge of picking hubs for our first dorm wiring project. I
> recently got an announcement (I expect many of you got the same one) from
> Asante for their 2072 hub which looks like it has the features we need at
> a good price. Our MIS department is balking at the idea, prefering
> another vendor's much more expensive hubs. I've got a couple of days
> to try and convince them otherwise before purchase orders are cut.
>
> Has anybody used the 2072 in a production network? Were you happy with it?
> Any problems? Would you buy one again? Not?
>
> If it matters, our plan is to run fiber into the building and vertically.
> Every few floors, there will be a large 10baseT hub cluster serving a
> couple of floors (3 clusters all together, each one serving one IP subnet
> (8-bits worth) and one AppleTalk phase-II network. Other protocols in
> use on the campus (DECNet, IPX, etc) will be blocked at the cisco router
> which feed the fiber runs into the building.
>
>
>> Roy,
>>
>> Check out Allied Telesis, who has good prices/features. A 12 port
>> modular 10Base-T hub with SNMP, additional telnet-able management, low
>> rack real estate and an AUI up-port is $650. Only $54/port. They have
>> other up-port and interface options. I'm not a saleperson, just someone
>> who has done some recent evaluations, I didn't even "do lunch" with
>> them. A.T. has being very helpful in representing their products unlike
>> some of the bigger companies who seem to have become too big for their
>> britches.
>> We at CMU got burnt in dealing with bad rev. interface cards from
>> Asanti. Their tech support had bad followup, did not return calls, etc.
>> This is sort of like buying a car, everything seems smooth at the
>> showroom with hidden surprises in the service department.
>>
>> Pete Bronder
>>
