Re: PM3 vs Shiva LRAS (fwd)

Kevin Smith (kevin@ascend.com)
Fri, 23 May 1997 18:26:00 -0700

At 09:35 AM 5/19/97 -0400, James Puckett wrote:
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>> * I see no mention of multi-chassis multi-link PPP.
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>It does not do multi-chassis multi-link PPP AFAIK.

I believe they do. I recall talking to them about a year+ ago at a
BAP/BACP meeting (they were co-authors of this), and we discussed
multi-chassis MP then....

>The current modem cards only have 12 modems (There is talk of a higher
>density version coming available soon). This allows 72 modems for analog
>(either c-T1 or PRI) configuations. The box will support 96 ISDN calls
>when configured for PRI.

Shiva also use Rockwell chipsets, so it will be interesting to see if they
can handle density of >72 in their current chassis...

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