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(ASCEND) 4000 Series Underpowered?
We have been told by Ascend Engineers & salespeople that you shouldn't
plug more than 2 PRIs into them although they support up to 4.
The reason is the memory and processor limitations and the
non-upgradability of the box (Hey, if it was a Cisco you could pop in a
SIMM and "no more memory problems").
Presumably running the boxes with all 4 ports is asking for trouble. We
have been doing it for a while but frankly I don't have an easy way of
telling when/where the performance degradation is.
We haven't had a crash (Under 5.0Ap48) in 6 months running them like this.
Apparently the 6000 Series is the "no really, it can handle 4 PRIs and we
mean it" version of the Max, rather than the "no, even though it has 4
ports you should only use 2" Max 4004.
Thoughs anyone?
> From: "Lynch, Mark" <mlynch@cas.org>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:07:24 -0400
> Subject: (ASCEND) 4000 Series Underpowered?
>
> 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.
>
> Is there any merit to this concern? I _do_ have my share of peculiar
> problems (as outlined in previous messages), but I always figured it was
> weird firmware at the worst. I never thought I was actually running out of
> horsepower . . .
>
>
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