yikes. your are probably right, but the nokia sales force seems to not
want to understand the federal market place and they don't want to let
me look at their customer support web site, part of my evaluation
process. doesn't make me warm and fuzzy about their corporate position.
i am looking at a nokia reseller also. but i don't have to ask which
nokia to use, a 650.
Chris Brenton wrote:
>
> Mike Batchelor wrote:
> >
> > I would have no problem recommending a Ultra-2 workstation, with two 300Mhz
> > UltraSPARCs, perhaps 512M memory. If you are on a budget, they can be had
> > refurbished for about $15,000 I think, or close to it.
>
> Yikes!
>
> For the same money you could buy a new Nokia 650 rated at 90 Mb/s. This
> would also get you traffic shaping (nice feature for controlling
> traffic).
>
> Not to mention it comes pre-configured to be a firewall (FreeBSD + CP
> Firewall-1) so out of the box it is optimized and ready to go.
>
> You also avoid all of those "which version/patches of Firewall-1 support
> which versions of Solaris" problems. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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