Re: difference (fwd)

Prof Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:21:46 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, John G. Thompson wrote:

> > Currently the PM 3 can only do 48 according to your sales staff.
>
> Whose sales staff did you talk to and when? 6 slots with 10 modem cards
> is 60 modems.

Creed Heilskov. I am assuming he said this because if you have 48 b
channels on 2 PRI's then each call takes up 1 channel, right? So youd only
use 60 modems with a Euro PRi or a T1.

>
> > As for the rest of your comments, I really think they are biased, which is
> > understandable since you work for them. I dont work for Ascend OR
> > Livingston and I use BOTH products. So far, I like the MAX, mostly cuz I
> > dont have a PM 3 yet and the MAx does what I need it to do.
> >
> > Check out www.starcomsales.com for comparison pricing.
>
> MAX 4002 $6710 PM-3A-2T 5472.52
> 8 modem $3660 8 modem $1897
> 12 modem $4062.50 10 modem $2365.00
>
> Looks pretty clear to me.

I mentioned the URL so that people could get good comparison prices. I
notieced that Starcom is selling the PM 3 products at %45 off list, I
guess to keep up their volume and to get the new product out there.. They
are NOT selling the Ascend products at such a good deal.

And MZ was making it sound like Max's were twice as much or more! They
arent as much anymore. Ascend really made a lot of money from us folks who
bought a year ago! Their stuff is now finally down to where it needs to
be. You can buy a fully configured max 4004 for about $18k now whereas the
empty box was closer to that!

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