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Re: (ASCEND) 4000 Series Underpowered?
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Lynch, Mark wrote:
> I have a doom-and-gloom coworker who keeps telling me my 4004 is
> underpowered for anything more than 30 to 40 simultaneous connections. This
> sounds peculiar to me, considering I can plug 4 T1s into it.
Yes, and my 15amp electric circuit has 7 outlets consisting of 2
plugs each, making for 14 ports. Connect 14 hair dryers and see what
happens :)). <jk>
> Is there any merit to this concern? I _do_ have my share of peculiar
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, the little i960 processor with
the code that ascend wrote isn't capabale of sustaining 96 simulatenous
calls, hell the 4048 gets slugish around 48 calls :) It not bad equipment,
and we continue to buy/use and sell it. Just know the limitations. See the
Tolly reports for the gory details, BTW it chokes on > 100K/s so if you've
got 40 ISDN customers all sucking down data someone isn't gonna get 6.4K/s
:)
Craig
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