Re: USR Lowers Pricing

Sherwood Pekelo (spekelo@iav.com)
Fri, 4 Apr 1997 01:12:43 -1000 (HST)

On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Richard Yoo wrote:

> At 09:45 PM 4/3/97 -0600, Jonah Yokubaitis wrote:
> >now, a 10 PRI box with full duplex 100baseT would be quite nice :-)
>
> I was under the impression that Livingston didn't want this sort of density
> in *one* box... I think the general consensus was that it would be too
> risky in case the box went dead... (230 ports going down at once would
> suck...)

redundant power supplies and hot-swappable PRI cards? as well as
hot-swappable DSP cards? All with heat generation and size of maybe a
small refrigerator?

It think the risk was implied in an OC-3 solution... one cable one HUGE
point of failure...

hmm, if Livingston comes out with this product in a year or so, I'd love
to help beta... ;) as I think we'll need it at that time!

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Aloha,

Sherwood