On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Orlando Andico wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Jimmy Lim wrote: > .. > > > you can buy a Cisco AS5300 on ebay with 240 ports for $6000. reliable pa, > > > not like a PC. the only problem with lots of dynamic ACLs set by radius is > > > that the 5300 runs out of CPU (100Mhz processor only). > > > > That's too expensive, I can even buy a brand new car for that. > > Gigahertz processor are now cheap, doing a PC based RAS/Firewall/NIDS > > can save you a lot of money and having a proactive performance of > > service :) > > You can buy a brand-new car for $6000? > > Jimmy, $6000 for a 240-port AS5300 is CHEAP. The Cisco SRP for that > configuration is in the $30,000 range, that's why we love eBay. > > I think if you get a PC-based RAS/firewall/NIDS and add 240 serial ports > AND 240 modems to it, the price will be well above $6000. And that > wouldn't even be NEBS-certified. >
Ok the closest solution I can find to the functionality of an AS5300 is the cyclades PC400 RAS-0150 [1]. This can support 2 E1s and 64 digital modems. To get 240 ports off this product and stick it in a PC, you need at least 4 cards. Each card is priced at $6526.00 [1], so thats $26,104. Plus a PC which we can probably round off at US$2000. So that's $28104.00 [1] http://www.cyclades.com/products/5/pc400 [2] http://www.microsupply.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/1808_1816_1817_1832/products_id/22464?osCsid=c27a382a93d1da57d341795f7e66f760 Much as i would like to prefer for an all-linux setup, I think i'll go for the AS5300 :) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
