Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-02-01 Thread J Roysdon
Only part failure I've ever had was out of the box with a 2900 with two slots. One slot had a FDDI module, and the other a FE module. It was acting as an expensive transceiver. TAC stayed on the phone while we troubleshooted the hardware and ended up getting 3 support personnel involved as it

Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-31 Thread J Roysdon
Yeah, I've had experience with their Cache Engine team and found it lacking as well. Turns out an online banking customer using the box couldn't even use it as the CE500 won't work with https/SSL certificates (I believe that was the issue, might be a little off on my terminology). Too bad TAC

RE: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-31 Thread Trevor Corness
e). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J Roysdon Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories Yeah, I've had experience with their Cache Engine team and found it lacking

Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-24 Thread Bill Sucevic
Bob, I never worked for Cisco TAC, but I was a TAC employee for two other networking companies over a 4 year period of time. Over the past two years, most network equipment manufacturers have had substantial backlogs of new orders that need to be filled as soon as possible. The QA groups are

OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-23 Thread Bob Johnson
Just curious about other peoples experiences with TAC on products "gone bad"... 1) Get call while almost in bed at 9:30 PM 2) 3548XL GigE interface goes down... 3) Restart and power cycle switch to no avail.. 4) Swap out GBIC and fiber patch with no more luck... 5) Call TAC, luckily equipment is

Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-23 Thread dre
Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about other peoples experiences with TAC on products "gone bad"... 1) Get call while almost in bed at 9:30 PM 2) 3548XL GigE interface goes down... The problem here was that you are using 3548XL switches... if you were using a modular

Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-23 Thread Flem
Actually ... --- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about other peoples experiences with TAC on products "gone bad"... 1) Get call while almost in bed at 9:30 PM 2) 3548XL GigE interface goes down... 3) Restart and power cycle switch to no avail.. 4) Swap out GBIC and

RE: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-23 Thread Perry Lucas
to swat a nat. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dre Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about other peoples

Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-23 Thread Erick B.
Hi, First of all, this isn't a problem with cisco TAC. They assisted you and dispatched hardware in a timely manner. This is a problem with damage during shipping or possibly defective units from the warehouse or supplier used. I don't work for them but do know sometimes that companies use other

RE: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories (Best to change the title to SmartNet QA horror stories))

2001-01-23 Thread Bob Johnson
As pointed out by many, the problem was not so much with TAC than with the SmartNet spares system. I consider the whole program under the umbrella of TAC (considering the amount we pay for SmartNet) hoever the TAC staff themselves have always been extremely respnosive and dependable In this

Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-23 Thread Rick Thompson
I have never had a problem with TAC that i can think of. Their cache engine support team is not that well experienced but they get the job done, just takes a little longer then with the RS groups. I have had a lot of failures with the 3548XL switches though. Bad GBIC and loose screws during

Re: OT (sort of) TAC Horror Stories

2001-01-23 Thread Steve H
"dre" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 94lis6$icg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:94lis6$icg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I've personally never experienced any problems with the TAC. It is often that I get a front line person that has no idea what I'm talking about, and sometimes they try to help anyways,