- The PM-3 supports a large range of ISDN switch types; Godzilla does
not.
- The PM-3 is rated for use in North America; Godzilla is not.
- The PM-3 is rack-mountable. Godzilla probably won't fit in your
office building, let alone in the machine room.
- The PM-3 does not emit dangerous radioactivity. To be fair about
it, the PM-3 also can't defend you against the evil invaders from
Planet X, unless, of course, they're trying to attack your network via
your ISDN lines, in which case RADIUS and ChoiceNet will present them
with quite a challenge. Godzilla doesn't have much in the way of
authentication, provides no accounting, and doesn't do any packet
filtering at all.
- The PM-3 has upgradeable RAM and a full megabyte of FLASH. Godzilla
is lucky if he can remember about his atomic fire breath. (To be
fair, the PM-3 has no ranged attacks.)
- Godzilla's operating system has serious code bloat, despite the fact
that it has relatively few features (fewer, in fact, than ComOS).
- For the sake of fairness, I should point out that Godzilla is
considerably more durable than a PM-3, and has a much longer MTBF. He
also doesn't mind being immersed in water, which would probably mess
up a PM-3 pretty good.
- The PM-3 comes with lifetime free technical support and software
updates. Supporting Godzilla will cost you, at a rough estimate,
around 45 billion dollars a year, and the toll in human lives may well
be incalculable.
- The PM-3 will support RIP and OSPF routing; Godzilla runs only the
extremely primitive DTT (Direct-To-Tokyo) routing protocol.
- Both products have powerful enemies, but Godzilla's are far more
likely to destroy your offices trying to get him.
- The PM-3 is a benevolent implementation of technology intended to
serve the present and future needs of an increasingly networked human
race. Godzilla is Nature's revenge for meddling with things we do not
understand.
My sources for this data include our own PM-3 product sheet:
http://www.livingston.com/Marketing/Products/pm3.shtml
and the information at Barry's Temple of Godzilla:
http://www.ultranet.com/~barry/godzilla.html
--G.
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