Back in the day (geesh I feel old just saying that), I deployed a lot of PM3’s …. Then we moved to Ascend TNT Max stuff - that was very exciting back then!
:) Paul On 12/16/2013, 3:16 PM, "vinny_abe...@dell.com" <vinny_abe...@dell.com> wrote: >Dell - Internal Use - Confidential > >PM3's were pretty solid. PM4's, not so much. They were often problematic >requiring periodic reboots of the entire chassis to keep them sane even >right up through the last firmware release until Lucent killed them off >in favor of their newly acquired Ascend equipment. The team that designed >them were good guys. We used to work directly with them on issues and get >early access to beta releases of new firmware for the PM's, including new >cutting edge protocols such as K56Flex and later V.90. :) > >-Vinny > >-----Original Message----- >From: Carlos Kamtha [mailto:kam...@ak-labs.net] >Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:05 AM >To: s...@circlenet.us >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier >network? > > >The PMs were fantastic. > >PM3's were pretty good as well. 2 PRIs or T1s.. 48 56k digital modems, + >ISDN support.. :) > >Carlos. > >On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Sam Moats wrote: >> I still have a soft spot for the Portmasters :-). We had rows of PM2's >> with US robotics 33.6K sportster modems attached on 8mm tape racks. >> Back when a town of 40K people could all connect through 2XT1's and >> everyone was happy. >> Sam Moats >> >> On 2013-12-13 16:59, Jon Lewis wrote: >
