well, i have a confession. one of my oldest customers, delta dental plan of nc, has cisco infrastructure throughout and has operated flawlessly since our initial installation in 1998. there's a big difference in cisco 924 and 2500, 2600, 3000 and 5000 series products.
my largest customer, tekni-plex, has some 21 plants in many different countries. they are a fool to cancel the local 1.5 Mbps time warner roadrunner internet connection and pipe all as/400, smtp and http traffic across a 64 kbps frac t1 even if the cisco 924 is trash. there is nothing wrong with having high quality wan connections with backup for something like a mission-critical as/400. my newest customer enjoys saving lots of money with their cable modem and el cheapo router. they do not depend on any connection at all to conduct their business. i'll take a cable modem and $60 linksys router any day of the week for the Internet connection. one may quickly determine the cost/bandwidth ratio and uptime statistics to assist in deciding what topology is appropriate. i surely wouldn't want my business revolving around an Internet connection, though... > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Monjar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:00 AM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list; Jim Ray > Subject: RE: Re[2]: [TriLUG] Xmas wireless question > > > --On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 07:43:38 PM -0500 Jim Ray > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 0's and 1's don't differentiate biz/home or brand. before > corporate out > > of nj laid down the law on their motorola router and frac > t1 at my largest > > client, i had roadrunner biz class service at that site with fancy > > schamncy cisco 924 router. it puked *3* times over 2 years while my > > residential roadrunner connection with motorola cable modem > and linksys > > router kept on ticking. > > > > too bad corporate pays ten times as much and gets ten times less > > bandwidth. ah, the price of control. > > > > Mbps, IP, DNS and cost are all that matter. everything > else can just go > > home and is pure marketing fluff. > > It all depends on where you stand... I'm responsible for a > North American > network spanning 6 sites that supports over 1600 end users. > I've used > Cisco at my core and at the edges for close to 10 years now. > Out of 20 or > so key devices I can remember one or two instances of > 'puking' in that > time. At that, they were just power supplies and the > redundant PS kept me > online while I hot-swapped the bad one. > > Sure, I might pay $2000 for a router that you would choose to > spend $200 > on... but if one of my manufacturing sites goes down for a > substantial > amount of time, and I am speaking in terms of hours, the lose > could easily > be in the hundred's of thousand's of dollars. This is both > in terms of > lost production capacity and of people sitting on their > hands because > they can't get to their applications. > > Equipment cost is a very small part of the equation... > > -- > Daniel Monjar > IS Manager, Technical Services > bioM�rieux, Inc. > Durham, NC US -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
