we just got our 3745's for our data center lab...I'll let you know soon how they work under stress and traffic conditions....
Larry Letterman Network Engineer Cisco Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Long and Winding Road" To: Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:57 PM Subject: Off Topic - layers 8, 9, and 10 [7:62616] > When we last saw our hero ( yours truly ) he was up to his ears in a major > AVVID deal. Lorda mercy, what a motherf***** The customer RFP was crap, the > turnaround time was cruel and unusual, and then when the bidders all came > back with numbers in the high 8 million range, the customer threw us all > out, and told us to come back when we could sell a system that would cost > the customer no more than X dollars per year on a five year lease. > > On top of that, you have Cisco sticking their nose in every chance they get > bitching about my choices of routers. "You can do it cheaper. we don't want > to lose the business because you're overspecifying routers" For an AVVID? > with unknown call volume? and unknown data traffic? Give me a break. It > ain't Cisco who's ass is gonna be kicked if the voice quality sucks. > > Layer 8 - politics, particularly of the customer > layer 9 - politics - the sales account rep > layer 10 - Cisco > > gotta say, though, this is gonna be one sweet project. for once I believe we > have a good technical solution combined with ample project hours for > assessments and implementation. > > but this whole process was still a motherF***** > > BTW, anyone have any comments on the new 1760V and 2651V packages? I > specified them in a couple of smaller sites. I used my cutoff point as > roughly 30 phones / 100 data ports, due to the great unknowns. DSP > resources, transcoding resources, and CPU hits when doing conference > calling, transcoding, and QoS were major concerns. > > 37XX routers sure seem like nice boxes. anyone got any comments? Their > performance anywhere near what the spec sheet says? > > -- > TANSTAAFL > "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=62630&t=62616 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
