Re: T1 Customer CPE Replacement?

[Curtis Maurand <curtis () maurand com>]

They're still in business.  They've been bought out, but they're still 
there.  

Curtis

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Sameer Khosla wrote:

> Just to add my 2 cents, I have installed a lot of Openroute routers over the
> years, and have had virtually no problems with them.  There is a GTX 1000
> Model that is modular, for which there are T1 CSU modules available.  I
> believe there were DSL modules as well.  There was also a GTX1500 model
> which had the encryption hardware for VPN's.
>
> If anyone is interested, drop me a line and I'll do some digging with one of
> their former SE's.  He has access to a fair supply of them.
>
> Sameer
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curtis Maurand" <curtis () maurand com>
> To: "Brian Bruns" <bruns () 2mbit com>
> Cc: "Claydon, Tom" <Tom.Claydon () DobsonTelco net>; <nanog () merit edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: T1 Customer CPE Replacement?
>
>
> > I had excellent luck with OpenRoute (formerly Proteon) GT90's.  They
> > handle dual ethernet or T1/E1.  They need an external CSU/DSU, but they
> > get the job done and they're very stable.  They will do NAT and most of
> > the other goodies that you can think about.  They also have gt900 firewall
> > and they have a model with a hardware accelerator to handle cryptographic
> > calculations.  I installed one of the latter into a customer about 4 years
> > ago and I've not had any trouble with it, except to upgrade the OS once to
> > fix some wierd packet length issues surrounding IPSEC tunnels.
> >
> > http://www.openroute.com
> >
> > Curtis
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Brian Bruns wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday, February 23, 2004 3:37 PM [EST], Claydon, Tom
> > > <Tom.Claydon () DobsonTelco net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > We're looking for a good replacement for fractional T1 customers with
> Cisco
> > > > 1600-  & 1700-series routers as their CPE. They are good routers, but
> the
> > > > ongoing support costs are an issue, and we need to replace them ASAP.
> > > >
> > > > Someone had mentioned several CPE vendors, such as Adtran and Netopia.
> Are
> > > > there any others, and does anyone have any pros/cons of what they're
> > > > familiar with?
> > >
> > > I'm quite familiar with the Netopia R53xx series T1 routers.  Excellent
> little
> > > routers for deplyoing to customers.  Very reliable, and if you are
> familiar
> > > with the DSL routers, you'll be right at home.  They have built in
> > > PPTP/ATMP/IPSec VPN support (both client and server), basic routing
> features,
> > > filtering, NAT, one-to-one IP mapping, remote syslog logging, as well as
> > > everything you'd expect in a T1 router (fractional T1 support, HDLC,
> PPP,
> > > FrameRelay, etc).  Theres also a 56k dialup backup module which is
> handy.
> > >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Curtis Maurand
> > mailto:curtis () maurand com
> > http://www.maurand.com

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