[RingBuffer]

>>RingBuffer, do you still work for Crossbeam?

Fortunately, no.

I should take up the point about BGP. Crossbeam charge you for advanced routing support that is flaky at best, not internally developed and poorly supported by the vendor. If you want BGP/OSPF, go for Nokia (or SPLAT)

On the support issue - the support guys are very good people, just stuck in the world of Bay and Nortel switching and routing... Their upper management are blinkered to the issues and so they do the best they can in that environment.

I will post a snippet of a memo which shows you the understanding...

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The difference between the C10 / C30 generation and the new generation is tremendous.

C2 has been designed under quality requirements. Nexcom, the ODM delivers a product which has been hardly tested. Burning tests, Software Tests, Hardware tests, Vibration test, cold tests (-40), Heat test (+80). That baby is solid. The disc is strong. Well fixed. Crossbeam Engineering and Manufacturing learned from the past and did a great job.

SQA did a great job as well. 161 bugs have been found and fixed. A lot of testing has been done in customer set up.

C2 is 3 time faster than IP260 on small packets. C2 can be a FW box, a VPN box, an IPS box. C2 has fail open capability. It is a very impressive baby with a strong personality.

Today we looked inside the box. There are many hardware details which have been built to make it robust. The disc is protected against vibration. It is designed for industry environment. It is strong. The CPU got a special fixation to get better protected against heat. The cabling has been optimized. The connectors have been designed for solidity. The chassis can be rack mounted and is solid as well.

The marketing launch program has been successfully started. The world is just waiting for that baby.

The WW SE team will see C2 over the next 2 weeks in Concord. Please look at his power, take it and make it strong in your local market

Today Nokia announced a big lay off in their security department. 130 people have been made redundant. A large part of their engineering is gone. Their VPN group is gone.

Look at it and convince yourself how nice it is and talk about it everyday to all your channels and customers. C2 will make you happy and will give you a lot of fun.


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make sense?? This is a US company remember. I copy this verbatim, with no changes.

I should say in their defense; if Crossbeam get SPLAT on the C2 at least, then this will be a credible platform.

I should also correct the mistake I made in my first post, C30 is 16 10/100 and not 18 1Gb as I said.

RB