> > 3) Ascend software is Bug ladened
> Are they delivering OSPF? Does it work?
OSPF and RIPv2, and both do seem to work as advertised (get it?).
> "Ascend's showing was disappointing. The vendor's flagship MAX 4000 was the
> only product ot take a throughput hit handling mnore than 16 concurrent
> clients over T1 and PRI. The RAS needed far longer to connect remote async
> clients through its PRI port than other products. And the version we tested
> had a bug that wouldn't allow us to disable malfunctioning modems (Ascend
> says it's working on a fix)."
I found that article to be completely useless for judging terminal
servers. Whether or not the Ascend had those failings, so much was
undocumented, unspecified, misstated, misunderstood, and clearly wrong
that it wasn't worthy of publication in 2600, much less a real
industry rag.
Count yourself lucky that the PM3 wasn't available for testing at the
time. They might have screwed up its review, too :-)
-- Robert