Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) PM3 vs USR TC

Holger Koepke (holger@mms.de)
Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:48:31 GMT

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:35:55 -0700, Alex <alex@livingston.com> wrote:
>
> At 01:18 PM 9/25/96 GMT, Holger Koepke wrote:
>
> >Hey! But they HAVE a fine SNMP solution! And you DON'T need this stuff to
> >configure the modem/netserver/PRI-card. We are waiting a long time now, to have
> >SNMP from Livingston also! BTW: I like the feature USR is giving the costumers
> >with their NMC!
>
> What particularly do you like about the NMC? Compare it to what we offer
> and tell me what we need to change.

I like:

- Upgrading of ALL components
- Nearly everything visible, about Linestatus and onlineconnections
- Easy setup of all components
- Open more than only one chassis (depending on local RAM)
- Autoresponce (Means that the NMC acts on some traps without needing
connectivity to any other device outside the chassis)
- Chassis awareness
- Performancemonitoring while connected

to have only some...

> What exactly do you need from SNMP? Is the issue being able to manage
> everything from one SNMP console? If so, what if we documented how to
> integrate PMconsole and our SNMP MIB2 support into an SNMP management
> platform, would that do the trick?

You learn to love the feature after needing them. Some of the USR features I
thought "What to hell is this good for?", but then I had a single problem, and I
love to be able to see nearly everything. Download the MIB from there
FTP-server, and look what is availible in there.

(Your programmers will hate you! :-))

> ...
>
> >> * Quote "10 PRI spans or 240 simultaneous users within a single
> >> chassis." <http://www.usr.com/business/30422.html> Now on the PDF it
> >> says "10 PRI spans, servicing up to 230 simlutaneous callers."
> >> Ok... but the illustration shows 17 slots on the rack. So, 1 for a
> >> dual PRI card, 1 for the NETServer PRI Card, one for the Network
> >> Management Card. That leaves 14 slots.
> >
> >1x NMC (dedicated 17th slot)
> >2x Powersupplies (1 Backup - Do you have backup PS?)
> >16x Application slots, in which you can put Modem/PRI/X.25/Netserver cards.
> >
> >That means, that you are free to put in, what fits. You can have (in europe,
> >because of E1) 4x Dual-PRI with 8 spanlines, which are 240 lines, with 4
> >Netservers 60. Than you have 8 slots for modems=24 analogports.
>
> So, are you saying that you don't need that many digital modems to handle
> your customer calls, and what you need from Livingston is something that
> does mostly high density PRI dial-in? If you need all the modems, then the
> high density PRI that USR offers is sort of irrelevant for your dial-in
> operation, right?

This time, the users will use MOSTLY (depending on the application)
analog-lines. But if your costumers switch over the months/years to ISDN and you
business is growing, you put out 2 Quadcards out of the TC-Chassis, and put in
one PRI/Netserver set, and voila: 8 analogports missing, but 60 digital more....

You are welcome,
Holger

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