At least last time I checked over the Shasta support page, there are only a
handful of documents over there. They really should have spent more time on
this as the box has tons of new features. I am sure shasta support in Nortel
GTS would be happy about this as well. ^__^
The things that I really like about the Shasta5000 is shasta's effort to
make it a wholesale aggregation device. The idea is that service providers
can throw DSL, dail, wireless, FR, ATM and cable all into this box and then
you can apply customized global policies to these subscribers. I look at
this as a great way to introduce value-added service, especially these days
when everyone is talking about profit. Two features that I tried before were
the firewall service policy and the captive portal service policy and they
both work very fine despite some minor bugs. As other posts mentioned, the
main way to configure the box is through a GUI interface which makes
presenting a sample configuration difficult.
I hasn't get a chance to see the Cisco ESR 10008 and 10005. However, I did
compare the shasta with Redback/Cisco 6400. Taking everything into
consideration, I would perfer the shasta5000 over the Redback/Cisco 6400 as
an aggregation device. Hopfully Nortel will stick with it rather than cut it
off...
Richard
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> > I have been dealing with these shasta boxes for a while. One thing I am
> > pretty sure is that even Nortel Shasta won't have too much documentation
> for
> > their own engineers... Therefore, your best bet to learn about this box
> > would be to check your SE or through "trial and error", which is what I
> > did...
>
> Did you try the Nortel Documentation homepage? I am guessing all the
> documentation that is available would be there. You may have to get full
> access to the Shasta documents by sending an email and configuring your
> browser for digital certificates, but it's worth the process.
>
> > There are some bugs in both software and hardware side of the box and
that
> > java GUI interface is really slow... However, I do have to say that I am
> > very impressed by the design of the router as it has quite a few nice
> > features for an aggregation device that at Cisco/Redback doesn't have.
For
> > example, the content management features are really neat and I can see
it
> as
> > a very scalable solution.
>
> Very interesting. Can you be more specific? "nice features", like what?
> What do you mean by "content management"? How would this be more
> scalable than competitors to the product, i.e. how does it match up to
> specific Cisco or Redback products? I'd really appreciate an example
> with the config or something equally interesting... :>
>
> > As long as Nortel keeps supporting Shasta, I think this box has some
great
> > protential and I will keep an eye on it.
>
> Have you checked out the competitive products in that range?
> Cisco ESR 10008, 10005, Cisco 6400 UAC, Redback, etc?
>
> -dre
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