<flagrant_plug>
I can tell you while evaluating 2 IP440s I have had nothing but fantastic
as well as instant response from both Glen Brown of Nokia and the support
staff at SecureIT. Every problem I have had has been fixed within
minutes.
</flagrant_plug>
Carric Dooley
COM2:Interactive Media
http://www.com2usa.com
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Neil Lehrer wrote:
> 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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