> I believe that a PM3 with two (2) T1s and 48 integrated digital modems
> sold to an ISP will cost less than $20,000.
>
> Good enough??
No not really! for two reasons:
1. A statment like "The box with this and that will cost this much" is much
better than I believe and I think and I heard and so on. Just come out
and tell the price.
2. If we take $20,000 to be the price this will translate into
(20000/48=416) ~$420/port, and that is not impressive at all. I am in the
market for 500 ports and I gotten quotes as low as $450 form Ascend
(MAX4004) and waiting for cisco (AS5200) which told us that they can beat
this price.
This is the market that you intend to enter. So, lacking the experiance
of Ascend (In this technology) and the size of Cisco, a completely
different approch has to be taken. You should tell us what the product is
going to look like, what it can and can not do, what it will be able to
do in the begining and what later on, what problems do you think we will
have (unless you guys are super-humans, I think there will be problems
like any new prodouct) and what is your plan to solve these problems,
how commited are you to this new line, how much tech support will be
available and dedicated to this product (either to help clients or solving
problems reported by clients).. and on and on...
My humble advice is, to stop this childish attitude of drama and wait for
this and wait for that and start answering these important questions.
This is the only way you are going to make me (and I suspect many
others) pay attention to you.
I apologize if this letter is harsh, I did not intended it this way, I
am just a user who has been using PMs (I have 7 PM2s) and would like to
continue using Livingston product, so as they say in the great USA: get
your act together boys :-)
Naief Bin-Talal
Network Engineer
GlobalNet Inc
>
> JGT
> John G. Thompson Livingston Enterprises Inc. Phone: (800) 458-9966