On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Jesse Erlbaum wrote:
> Hi John --
>
> > That's for all the info so far. To answer some questions,
> > hardware is a cost issue right now. It's somewhat scary that
> > $3,200 was a "reasonable" price several years ago, but I
> > suppose it could be worse. We will investigate further.
>
> Actually, $3200 was a STEAL! Cisco's "Local Director" was in the mid
> five-figures at the time, IIRC. :-)
So it was that range, not $15K as I thought. Yep, I remember that we got
both of them for far far less than a Cisco, and much better support. We
had the chief developer's cell phone number, and he would help us out all
the time. At the time we were growing so fast we were almost a test case
for them ... we took them up to at least 70 million dynamic requests a
day, with stickiness required, using the adaptive balancing, with no real
problems, before moving to the Foundry Systems hardware.
- nick
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Nick Tonkin {|8^)>
