I feel your pain. We have over fifty Cyclades TS units supporting
nearly 2300 console lines. They've been a rock-solid part of our
infrastructure for nearly five years.
Sigh.
Brodie, Kent wrote:
> Oh man. I appear to have been the victim of this a lot (that is,
> managing some REALLY good technology, and then some big mother ship
> swallows up said company, and the products I end up with all eventually
> suck...).
>
> The first of this was DIGITAL. We all know what happened there. And
> so on.
>
> Fortunately, on the ASSUMPTION that the existing cyclades line of boxes
> get shelved, there should be (I would hope) enough surplus and/or
> "previously owned" boxes out there to find one if you really need.
>
> I personally have been VERY happy with my cyclades boxes-- between that
> and conserver, I have something like 72 servers whose console ports I
> have configured. I have another 25 to add, just haven't gotten to them
> yet.
>
> NEVER had an issue. And I'm doing console access via serial/SSH and all
> that.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces@conserver.com [mailto:users-bounces@conserver.com]
> On Behalf Of John Stoffel
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:53 PM
> To: Dr. Dirk Wetter
> Cc: users@conserver.com
> Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: Avocent to acquire Cyclades
>
>
> This is the end, Avocent makes sub-standard boxes IMNSHO. Sigh...
>
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nearly 2300 console lines. They've been a rock-solid part of our
infrastructure for nearly five years.
Sigh.
Brodie, Kent wrote:
> Oh man. I appear to have been the victim of this a lot (that is,
> managing some REALLY good technology, and then some big mother ship
> swallows up said company, and the products I end up with all eventually
> suck...).
>
> The first of this was DIGITAL. We all know what happened there. And
> so on.
>
> Fortunately, on the ASSUMPTION that the existing cyclades line of boxes
> get shelved, there should be (I would hope) enough surplus and/or
> "previously owned" boxes out there to find one if you really need.
>
> I personally have been VERY happy with my cyclades boxes-- between that
> and conserver, I have something like 72 servers whose console ports I
> have configured. I have another 25 to add, just haven't gotten to them
> yet.
>
> NEVER had an issue. And I'm doing console access via serial/SSH and all
> that.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces@conserver.com [mailto:users-bounces@conserver.com]
> On Behalf Of John Stoffel
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:53 PM
> To: Dr. Dirk Wetter
> Cc: users@conserver.com
> Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: Avocent to acquire Cyclades
>
>
> This is the end, Avocent makes sub-standard boxes IMNSHO. Sigh...
>
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