Re: Lament for Old v.35 Cables (and other comm equipment)

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Pat,

As much as people think that management does this because of flashy
magazines there may be other reasons.  A V.35 line between two iSeries may
be replaced by that same line being connected via routers.  Now this line
can be shared with your TCP/IP connected PC's.  We've done a lot of
extensive upgrades to our network lately, giving us higher speed, better
quality, more backup and a savings of $100,000.

Rob Berendt
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




Pat Barber <mboceanside@worldnet.att.net>
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I'm sure you have some really fine reasons for doing this, but it
sounds like the wrong people are in charge. You take a "working",
"solid as a rock" comm. system out for "pure tcp/ip" ?????

I would "love" to see the business justification for that move.

I would also like to know who promotes tcp/ip as "modern", since
it is actually almost as old as V.35(1971 as I recall for tcp/ip).

PaulMmn wrote:
>

>
> I realize that v.35 cables are dinosaur-like, and don't have a lot of
> demand in this Ethernet age, but it bothers me that a perfectly good
> cable is going to be destroyed and thrown out just because -we- don't
> need it anymore.

>
> My boss is going to -weigh- the stuff we haul out to impress people
> with how much junk we don't need any more.  I just see perfectly good
> (but probably unwanted) equipment being trashed.
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