> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
>
> |
> |It looks as if USR has lowered prices CONSIDERABLY for their terminal
> |services. We just got quoted a price for a USR Total Control model with 48
> |modems + 2 pri for $14,352. This includes everything but a $250 fan.
> |That is about $295 per port.
> |
> |Now, I paid $11,000 for my PM3. It's a nice box, includes 2 PRI, but I
> |elected to only get 24 modems, but to upgrade to 48 modems it's going to
> |cost me $5,691 for a total cost of about $16,700.
> |
> |At the time we purchased the PM3, the USR was about $560/port. I guess
> |they are going all out to support x2. Is this the beginning of a price
> |war?
>
> USR is going for the balls. You can bet Ascend/cisco are in chaos
> right now.
>From my industry rags/mags Hayes is buying out Cardinal to be able to sell
X2 but anticipate only 10% sales of X2 modems...also Rockwell reported a
throughput bug that was fixed after beta testing on the East coast, which
will delay mass production by about 2 weeks...
just FYI...
-- Aloha,Sherwood