Re: USR TC Stupidity

Joe Sasek (sasek@livingston.com)
Thu, 22 May 1997 07:56:53 -0700

>On Wed, 21 May 1997, Frank Duchoeny wrote:
>
>|I received a promotion from a USROBOTICS TC Distributor. They state that
you can buy 2 'USROBOTICS TOTAL CONTROL - 56K CHASSIS FOR $xx,xxx.xx
>|They go on to state the features of this unit as follows;
>|2 T1/PRI, 48 "X2/56K" modems, hot swappable
>|Analog (28,33 or 56K), ISDN Frame Relay
>|Multi-Chassis PPP, Radius, TACACS
>|Flash upgradeable to Rockwell 56kFlex later
>|USR supplied "X2" client leads now !!!
>|
>|
>|My BIGGGG QUESTION; How are they going to flash a TI Chipset into a
>|Rockwell Chipset?
>
>most likely the same way they flashed a TI chipset to a rockwell v.fc
>or an AT&T/Lucnent v.terbo etc. USR sucks at a lot of things, but
>modem code isn't one of them. Now, I want to see Livingston go get an
>"Independent tester" to do some performance figures between the NAS
>vendors. I bet that tester can get more than 17calls ;)

We are in the final process of getting results done from the NSTL lab which
recently published its original test results in Network World (I think)
magazine. These results did not include Livingston but had everyone else. I
will get those posted as soon as they are complete.

I'll reiterate that 1._real world_ is the most important environment to
test in.
2. The PM3 is designed with absolutely no system bottlenecks that would
cause the product to suffer degradation of performance by adding more
calls. I only wish that a company (USR) cared more about its credibility
than to allow something of such FUD to be posted publically when it surely
has people in the organization that are smart enough to not risk losing
credibility for the sake of competing unfairly.

My 2 cents.

Joe

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