> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug McIntyre > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:38 PM > To: Justin Shore > Cc: 'cisco-nsp' > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 2811 and WIC-1DSU-T1. > > > I believe the main reason for this (besides the fact that the > WIC-1DSU-T1 card was EOL'd before the ISR was released) is the rampant > piracy of this WIC, and this is an effort by Cisco to lessen some of that. >
I think that isn't correct. The V2 introduced the ability to attenuate output transmission with the "cablelength" parameter. This would have required a fundamental redesign of the CSU part of the ASIC chip. I'm sure they also took the opportunity to cheapen the WIC down as well. (ie: their cost to manufacture, not our price we pay) Likely there were some timing parameters between the WIC interface and WIC slot that changed, and the designers didn't want to go back and redesign the WIC or slot silicon to match the older routers. As long as Cisco has their stuff manufactured overseas, in Asia, they are going to have rampant piracy of their parts. After all it's the same production factories that are churning out the Cisco parts for Cisco that are also churning out the counterfeited stuff on the sly for the pirates. If Cisco were to shut down all their Asian production and start making the stuff in the US like they used to do, the piracy problems would go away. Ted _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
