Hey Ed, I purchased the Slimline 2 (www.cheapisdn.com) because of the price. I think it works well.
The one major flaw I see is that it does not use SPID's. So my decision came down to do I care enought about SPIDs to spend the additional money and get a TelTone (http://www.bigdcom.com/teleline.html) which was about $1865 or go for the less expensive solution. If you do go with TelTone, you may need to specify you are from GroupStudy to get that price. I believe that is our discounted price. In my particular case $500 for SPIDs was not worth the price. You just need to remember if you are going for your CCIE Lab not to forget the SPIDs if they use an ISDN type that requires SPIDs. I just tried it and the router will still except the spid1 and spid2 commands, they just have no effect because of the switch type used. So you can still is use SPIDs in your configurations for practice in case they are required. I was also pleasantly surprised to see it is a hi-quality product, fully encased in metal. The picture makes the simulator look as if it is plastic, which is not the case. The Slimline 2 also has a pretty nice diode setup. You can tell exactly what is happening by looking at the simulator. For each BRI port there are two lights, representing the two B-channels. If the light is amber then you know level two is up but not level 3. If it turns green you know level 3 is operational. Take care, Paul Borghese ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Chuchaisri" To: Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: Simline2 ISDN vs. ILS-2000 [7:31666] > Hi, > > I am setting up a Cisco lab and I have a question in regards to the ISDN > simulator. I am weighting in between Simline 2 and ILS-2000. They both > have built-in NT1 so I can just plug in my 2503 and it should work. > > Now, what gets me is that for the Simline 2 you can get it almost $1000 > cleaper than ILS-2000. I am sure that they both serves typical Cisco lab > well, but is there anything else that differentiates between those two in > term of the functionalities? > > Thanks, > > Ed > www.router4u.com > "Affordable Cisco Lab" Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=31732&t=31666 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
