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Not exactly but Bell Labs did something like this in March http://www.lucent.com/press/0306/060308.coi.html

Bell Labs did this in March http://www.lucent.com/press/0306/060308.coi.html

Judging from the outside, HP's CEO before Carly, Lew Platt, was a terrible manager. But Carly was far worse.

While HP was under Carly, our company stopped buying HP products because we would discover large problems within the first few minutes of installation and use. If the disconnected-from-reality mood of HP's technical support was any guide, things were VERY weird at HP while Carly was there.

A lot of HP's ability to make a profit comes from selling inkjet ink for $8000 per gallon and from people who learned long ago that HP had the best products, but have not updated their understanding.

Carly's former job was at Lucent Technologies, another company on the way down. Lucent has gone from about 165,000 employees to 30,500 employees, and from $84 share price to $2.37.

Note that Lucent is another company with a female CEO, Patricia Russo.

Both Carly Fiorina and Patricia Russo are heavily involved with Bush league politics. They inhabit a parallel universe in which they are considered a success while their organizations are on the way down, just some have considered the the U.S. government a success as it has been on the way down since Bush was elected. Losers find each other.

Some people think that someone with no technical experience, and little respect for technical experience, can run a technical company. I think that belief is hogwash.

I must profess ignorance of Ray Kurzweil and his ideas; however, though I will trust your assertion that the reasoning is straightforward, you require the reader to make three very big assumptions about technology, any of which is hard to argue on their own merits. I will also admit that I did not do anything more than a quick scan of the essay you linked to, so forgive me if some of my questions are answered in there. To start, I have a hard time thinking of anything that is truely exponential in nature because it is essentially unsustainable due to a depletion of resources. Kurzweil raises the issue then dismisses it by not addressing it. He notes that evolutionary change led to dramatic changes in organisms, such as during the Cambrian explosion, but ignores the fact that indeed species became much more complex, but they became much bigger resource depleters in that they required more food and other resources to survive. He also is very loose with "intelligence," so I am not sure how he can model it. He also seems to throw around "information" that I believe is not at all consistent with how it is usually handeled rigorously. That said, I find this argument very unconvincing, and at best some nice science fiction ideas propped up with some colorful-looking graphs.

I don't quite understand the Fermi argument either. Are there some implicit assumptions, like an infinite age of the Universe or something? To me, it sounds like arguing before Columbus sailed the Atlantic, that if there really were people on some as-yet undiscovered land over the horizon, they would already have visited Europe, therefore there isn't any race of peoples unknown.

I've reviewed the following:

Bluecat Networks Proteus/Adonis http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/
Incognito IP/Name/DNS Commander http://www.incognito.com/
INS IPControl http://www.ins.com/
Carnegie Mellon's NetReg http://www.net.cmu.edu/netreg
Lucent VitalQIP http://qip.lucent.com/
Solarwinds IPAM Pro http://www.solarwinds.net/
Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com/
Infoblox http://www.infoblox.com/
IPPlan http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipplan
MetaInfo http://www.metainfo.com/

In hopes of replacing our current in-house developed solution.

I'll be honest, they are for the most part simply 'ok'. I wasn't super-impressed with any of them, and the bottom half of the list were definitely not ready for ISP/ASP/MSP-level use. I've listed them in descending order of my preference. All the useable ones are super-expensive, on the order of 'ok you can afford to pay a decent php/mysql coder to code you something from the ground up', or you can take this out-of-the-box thing, and shoe-horn it into your existing network. Which will in most cases take some weeks of programming anyway...

I had some of what I thought were pretty simple requirements...

- unix/linux based
- no single point of failure (clustering)
- handle forward and reverse dns
- api's (mostly to allow us to present a customer access to their zones)
- web-based gui with tiered user-levels
- pref software-based install rather than appliance, due to the shoe-horn prediction i mentioned above

Those are the highlights off the top of my head. I was surprised how few actually had all those features.

After months of doing webcasts, reading white-papers etc we've come to the conclusion that it's going to be developed in-house from the ground up, using bsd/apache/postgres/php/bind and some soap.

After reviewing these, I'm actually dying to know what large enterprises are using. I'm hoping there's some magic bullet IPAM solution that I missed on google. Please someone tell me about it!

Anyway, hope this helps you in your quest.

Proprietary, but Lucent's VitalQIP provides several nice functions like automated subnetting, DCHP and DNS integration, along with the ability to scale.

> Unless things have changed MASSIVELY at Lucent within the past 3-4 years

Does this count ? :

On April 2, 2006, Alcatel and Lucent announced that they entered into a definitive merger agreement to create the first truly global communications solutions provider with the broadest wireless, wireline and services portfolio in the industry.

http://www.lucent.com/news_events/merg.html

In related news from 2004: "Lucent Technologies names Jan M.K. Jaferian as Intellectual Property Business President ... protecting, enhancing and generating value from Lucent's Intellectual Property assets, which includes Lucent's extensive portfolio of nearly 14,000 active patents worldwide."

which came from Lucent which came from AT&T Technologies which came from Western Electric which came from AT&T. So we're both right.

First, let me say that I am an employee of Lucent Technologies, Inc. If you are interested in highly scaleable and fault tolerant IPAM, DNS and DHCP solution, we can offer VItalQIP. This depends on how much you need to move beyond a single hosts file or spreadsheet. The VitalQIP product is a centralized solution for the management of your IP address space, DNS and DHCP. As part of the application we also provide the Lucent DNS Server (BIND based) and the Lucent DHCP server. The system is integrated with Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, DNS and DHCP. This includes GSS-TSIG authenticated Dynamic DNS Updates. From an administrative control perspective, the management UI allows for very granular control of access, down to the individual IP address. The software runs across a range of operating systems and hardware platforms. Let me know if you have any further questions. Frank Jennings fjennings@lucent.com http://www.lucent.com/vital

Lucent's Brick firewall is a dedicated appliance that's very easy to use and manage. Throughput is terrific and the price is reasonable. The Brick runs Inferno, an operating system which traces its roots back to Bell Labs, the birthplace of Unix.

The bricks are managed using an easy to use GUI that is Java based and runs on Windows or Unix. The management station is separate from the Brick hardware, but can be anything, even just your desktop Win2K Pro box. The managment station is not in the path of traffic, it's just a computer behind the firewall.

Configuration is simple and the reporting functions are easy to use. The learning curve is very shallow, but the Brick is capable of quite advanced functions.

Failover is incredibly simple, just buy a second identical brick and check one checkbox in the managment GUI.

http://www.lucent.com/products/solution/0,,CTID+20 17-STID+10080-SOID+1649-LOCL+1,00.html

This link is to the model 150, but there are lots of models. They all work the same way, what you pay just determines the amount of throughput and number of interfaces.

You created the Lucent logo didn't you?

There is of course the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_division_m ultiplexing

Note: A single mode fibre can carry 160 channels of 10 Gbits/s, or 1.6Tbits/s.

The reason it is not widely accepted (outside of big telecommunicatons suppliers) is the huge cost. For example, each channel requires a seperate laser, and may cost in the region of $20000 each. Multiply that by the maximum number of channels and you are looking at about $3.2 million just for the lasers alone. Once you add the detectors and high speed electronics to process all this DWDM is VERY expensive.

Only long distance telco links and Microsoft can justify the expense:

http://www.lucent.com/press/0698/980603.nsa.html

Jonathan

You do have Western Electric, it's just called Lucent. They inherited The Labs when they were spun out in the 90's. You've gone from AT&T & the Seven Baby Bells to four regionals (Nynex & Bell Atlantic -> Verizon, Southwest Bell + Pacific Telesis + Ameritech -> SBC), three of which own/are acquiring a long-distance company (SBC - AT&T, Quest, Verizon - MCI).

Exactly.

"Porting" applications between Linux/AIX/HPUX/Solaris is trivial; at least with C/C++. I've been a developer of a very successfull product that supports all these platforms (has since 1998) and I can say that there is less than .01% of code that is unique to any platform; primarily the inclusion of different header files. In fact just as much "porting" is done to work with various releases of Windows.

Perhaps there are projects that require substantial porting between UNIX platforms, but most likely this is a manifestation of flaws in their code/architecture and not something that should be expected when working with multiple flavors of UNIX.

So I guess the astronomers prior to Galileo were correct then in that the earth is the center of the universe. They must be, they published in physics journals! My point is that what we know now, we only know because something better came along later. It may very well be wrong, but it is the best we can do at the time. And I would probably say that 50% of the work being done now is wrong in the sense of something better will come along to explain the results better. As they say, hindsight is 20/20.

Look, I'm a PhD physicist too, but I certainly know that my results may not correct. I try to do everything I can to ensure they are accurate, but correct, I can't say. And yes, things do get published in Physics journals that are clearly wrong, http://www.lucent.com/news_events/researchreview.h tml

Erm... "He"?

a photo of her

Not only that, she's an enormous cow too:

http://www.lucent.com/osssentinel/october2004/imag es/michelledelio.jpg

Did you SEE a picture of Michelle? I think she just might represent that random event :)

And on a side note, I think people might have had an easier time believing that she slid a few of these things past editors if she was a hot girl with big breast (pardon the crudeness - I am trying to make a point). But it makes you wonder when she looks like this.... Not being prejudiced against ugly people (or fat people), but this is unfortunately how the world works. At least in my damn office...

Why can't we have hottie tech reporters, I say? At least when they go crooked we could cut them some slack because they look good =)

In February 1996, the soon-to-be-spun-off systems and technology unit of AT&T [includes Bell Labs] renamed itself Lucent Technologies and launched its separation with an initial public offering of stock issued in April 1996. The spin-off was completed in September 1996 when AT&T distributed its shares of Lucent to AT&T shareholders.

On the other hand, they may actually want him to develop an operating system. That is one of the things he's done before, and one of the things he's well known for.

Why on earth should Google want to develop a new (or highly modified) operating system? What strengths would Dr Pike bring to that project?

Google have a very large number of servers. They won't reveal how many they have, but admit to more than 10,000 servers, another another estimate suggests between 31 and 158 thousand servers. That's a lot of computing power. Presumably the people at Google are highly interested in getting as much work out of this hardware as they possibly can.

Enter Dr Pike. He's well known for Plan 9 "The Plan 9 system is based on the concept of distributed computing in a networked, client-server environment. The set of resources available to applications is transparently made accessible everywhere in the distributed system, so that it is irrelevant where the applications are actually running."

I have seen passing references that Plan 9 is strong on clustering and load balancing. Unfortunately I can't get google to give me a good citation, so this may be a myth.

So, I went to Bell Labs (now Lucent) and looked it up. I perused it briefly, but want to look at it more to understand just what they mean by 'entropy' of a message (especially in the transmission of continuous data and how you measure how much 'information' is in a bit of continuous data). Fun stuff for a rainy day!

my coffee mug made a Lucent logo on my desk... Can I take photos, host them on a brittle server and make a /, submission?

Earlier this year, there was a conference (Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association or CTIA) which featured a test of the QChat(tm) PTT system. Spear-headed by Nextel, Qualcomm, Kyocera Wireless and Lucent (who happens to be at the core of Sprint's infrastructure), the technology promises cross-platform support. You can read about it here

Given that Qualcomm's Qchat(tm) system is based on CDMA technology (used by Sprint), and is compatible with NexTel's iDEN(tm) network, this should offer some hope to those worried about being forced to part with their current phones. Of course, that remains to be seen. One can only hope for the best!

As with any major merger, one of the keys to success lie in the transition team. All the technology in the world won't help if the decision makers are a bunch of egotistical maniacs, hell-bent on implementing "their" vision (no pun intended on the Sprint moniker) of the direction the combined companies should take. All the while, the customer would be left to suffer at the hands of a lousy tech support staff and billing system from hell (both companies suffer from this.)

I think the implementation of the following features would give rival companies a run for their money:

* Hybrid version of Vision(tm)/NexTel Web that would be cross-platform compatible.
* Cross-platform SMS support
* Unlimited incoming call plans (NexTel)
* Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile (or PCS-to-PCS from Sprint)
* Unlimited PTT (offered by both - hopefully inter-connected via QChat)
* Proper implementation and use of FOTA (Firmware Over The Air) enabled phones to offer upgrades without the need to visit a local store. Newer Sanyo and Samsung phones offer this feature. I believe many Motorola phones have this capability. If not, a small J2ME program should be written to have the firmware downloaded and only run after the checksum is verified. This would eliminate the worry of a lost signal causing damage to the phone. I don't know the details of the FOTA specs used in Samsung/Sanyo phones, but a similar operation should take place as well.

* New feature MUST: Tech support and billing system that doesn't screw over the customer and/or give them the run around!

Sun's problem is that their hardware isn't that great.

Snake oil.

Read why here. Get the info in Claude Shannon's own words here.

Could you not find any links to articles which said things like "Africa ONE has completed..."? Because all of your "More info" links say things like "The Africa ONE project will create...". I could find no proof that it actually was ever completed, or even started, so the fiber is possibly very dark indeed.

I was able to find links about this from 1995 1998 1999. So it's not like this was necessarily imminent just because Wired was writing about it.

www.africaone.com says "No web site is configured at this address." which isn't particularily promising.

The CIA World Factbook says that Namibia has an Africa ONE connection. But only Namibia, which isn't encouraging.

Of course, it's possible/likely that this project is now on someone else's books, and is called something else. I've already spent my 15 minutes poking the web ...

There is a huge loop of fiber going all the way around Africa that was put there during the dotcom boom by a company called Africa One. Apparently it is mostly dark, because no one can pay to use it:

See here for a large pic.

More info:
Wired News
Lucent
Some interview

So this is interesting for wireless sake, but not interesting for the sake of Internet connectivity in Africa. This fiber loop needs to be put to use to enable cheap Internet in Africa. Many Internet connections are still done by satellite, which is expensive and slow.

Which Mobile Internet technology is the best ?

May be you can find it, by playing this simulation game here at Lucent.com. The simulator here shows the differences in bandwidth and roundtrip delays for various mobile technologies. The simulator compares CDMA2000 EV-DO, CDMA2000 1X, GPRS and EDGE. A UMTS, GPRS, GSM-Data and Modem version. There are two version of the simulator one with EV-DO & one with UMTS.

Which Mobile Internet technology is the best ?

May be you can find it, by playing this simulation game here at Lucent.com. The simulator here shows the differences in bandwidth and roundtrip delays for various mobile technologies. The simulator compares CDMA2000 EV-DO, CDMA2000 1X, GPRS and EDGE. A UMTS, GPRS, GSM-Data and Modem version. There are two version of the simulator one with EV-DO & one with UMTS.

Is it right for a discredited man to have his pHD removed? Is it right that popular opinion can determine how qualified someone is to make a statement in their field?

The university he got his degree from was the University of Konstanz in Germany. Here's a German article (babelfished) on the whole thing. The educational laws of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg state that a PhD title can be removed if "through his behavior at a later point in in his career, the owner has proven unworthy of the title."

From Bell Labs' summary, we can find more about what he was charged with:

• Substitution of data (substitution of whole figures, single curves and partial curves in different or the same paper to represent different materials, devices or conditions)
• Unrealistic precision of data (precision beyond that expected in a real experiment or requiring unreasonable statistical probability)
• Results that contradict known physics (behavior inconsistent with stated device parameters and prevailing physical understanding, so as to suggest possible misrepresentation of data)

[...]

The Committee's main findings and conclusions can be summarized as follows.

By all accounts, Hendrik Schön is a hard working and productive scientist. If valid, the work he and his coauthors report would represent a remarkable number of major breakthroughs in condensed-matter physics and solid-state devices.

Except for the provision of starting materials by others, all device fabrication, physical measurement and data processing in the work in question were carried out (with minor exceptions) by Hendrik Schön alone, with no participation by any coauthor or other colleague. None of the most significant physical results was witnessed by any coauthor or other colleague.

Proper laboratory records were not systematically maintained by Hendrik Schön in the course of the work in question. In addition, virtually all primary (raw) electronic data files were deleted by Hendrik Schön, reportedly because the old computer available to him lacked sufficient memory. No working devices with which one might confirm claimed results are presently available, having been damaged in measurement, damaged in transit or simply discarded. Finally, key processing equipment no longer produces the unparalleled results that enabled many of the key experiments. Hence, it is not possible to confirm or refute directly the validity of the claims in the work in question.

The most serious allegations regarding the work in question relate to possible manipulation and misrepresentation of data. These allegations speak directly to the question of scientific misconduct. The Committee carefully investigated each of these allegations and came to a specific conclusion in each case.

The evidence that manipulation and misrepresentation of data occurred is compelling. In its mildest form, whole data sets were substituted to represent different materials or devices. Hendrik Schön acknowledges that the data are incorrect in many of these instances. He states that these substitutions could have occurred by honest mistake. The recurrent nature of such mistakes suggests a deeper problem. At a minimum, Hendrik Schön showed reckless disregard for the sanctity of data in the value system of science. His failure to retain primary data files compounds the problem.

More troublesome are the substitutions of single curves or even parts of single curves, in multiple figures representing different materials or devices, and the use of mathematical functions to represen

Note that you can aggregate 64 OC-768 (40Gb/sec) circuits onto a single fiber strand with Lucen'ts LambdaXtreme Transport.

What this means is that the next generation of fiber routing and switching gear is available and ready for deployment. Existing fiber networks will continue to increase in value while redundant dark fiber will retain its zero-dollar value status.

I have a Lucent Cellpipe DSL modem and Apple Airport Base Station coupled together as my home wireless network router. They work together quite happily but... Airport Base Station just looks great, more like a piece of art than a wireless router. It also runs perfectly silent. Lucent Cellpipe, on the other hand, looks butt-ugly AND IT WORKS LOUD - it constantly hisses and buzzes (I even learned to guess the operating mode from the kind of noise it makes - there's a special kind of hissing when the box is connecting with the PPPoE server, a special kind of hissing when it's connected and everything is OK, a special kind of hissing when WAN goes out of synchro). Obviously, wireless network nodes do not need to look fine and they don't even need to work quiet but... both devices are also a sort of a sample of the general technical culture for both companies. And guess which company's products I'll tend to buy in the future...

Let's ignore the problem that theorems are neither true nor false, but valid/invalid, or "in/accurate". Information theory doesn't define a bit in a vacuum (pun intended), just like quantum mechanics defines energy as relative to extension. So the "falsity" of your bit is, of course, 1 bit of information - in a processor that can decode it, like Wolfram's Mathematica. The theorem itself has an information value within a processor like "Universe". Try reading Shannon's work, and taking a stab at it.

Everyone seems to think that ISPs just run Ethernet everywhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth. 95% of the links between POPs are SONET rings which only run at SDH/OCx data rates. There is a technology that allows defined QoS and aggregated connections over a single link and it sure isn't Ethernet.

SDH being phased out? By who? The telcos and MUST provide quality of service. I can't honestly say I foresee them replacing Add/Drop multiplexers and DCSs with Ethernet especially considering the former equipment's reliability GREATLY exceeds the latter.

Cisco and Juniper aren't use because they are terrible at supplying equipment used in carrier class networks. Data rates aren't everything as anyone who sources equipment will tell you.

ATM doesn't do OC48??!? Try the 5 year old Lucent GX550 which supports 8 OC48 cards on a 25 GBsec backplane.

this articles a good read so take the time to go through it as it summarises innovation from the early internet years to date.

innovation. The trick is finding that one crazy idea. The problem with crazy ideas, though, is that for every one good crazy idea, there's a thousand bad crazy ideas

the eternal quest for an idea. you better start with a good idea. if you don't, no matter how hard you try it wont pan out.

the Internet community back then, the key technical people, didn't want the Internet to become easy to use or graphical, ... Only smart people could use the Internet ...so we needed to keep it hard to use

what other examples can you think of right now?... only smart people can use [insert you own example]

Mosaic started with 12 users in February 1993. It had 1,000 users within three or four weeks. About 10,000 users by spring. It was up to 1 million by early 1994

Posters who question why Andreessen has such prominence should reflect on this. No Mosaic (mozilla), no Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE Based on NCSA Mosaic code base licensed from Spyglass), no World Wide Web in the early to mid 90's. No doubt someone else may have invented the browser but how much longer would it have taken?

At first that makes you like a little bunny rabbit ... Everybody wants to play with you ....within a year ... fearsome competitors shooting at your head with high-powered ammunition

Larry, Sergi do you feel the hot breath of the MS juggernaut as you approach your IPO. Will google will be a repeat of Netscape/MS tussle?

Oracle database was a huge success ... Larry's spent the last 25 years trying to come up with the next product

it sure helps when the government (CIA) is your preferred backer. Why does oracle feel the need to keep trying to re-innovate or create the next best idea?

innovation comes from companies that are 2 years old, populated by 19-year-olds ... preposterous that Marc should think that innovation is .. the province of little entrepreneurial companies.

In fact it's both. The technical revolution was spurred on the back of the transistor. This was the combined effort of Bardeen, Brattain and shockley at Bell Labs - no small comany there ... but look at Intel, though a big company now, it was started with the (not so young) Noyce, Moore and Grove. What about the Linux kernel, third person shooters and that other search engine, Yahoo?

It's already being used by someone.

Lucent? It's not a swirl, but it's remarkably similar. If you could combine sybase and lucent, you would have the debian logo almost precisely.

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Believe it or not, I think a network can actually scale better then sending stuff, at least if you look at cost. Why? Because you have to figure in labor.

When you have a one-off transfer it's not a big deal, but imagine if you spent all day installing a hard drive, copying data over, and then packing it up to be shipped back out with the result. It would get pretty old, I think. Imagine if you had to pay someone to do this, all day long. Now imagine that you needed a lot of bandwidth, like 20tb/second. Assuming one hard drive stored 200gb, and assuming it took 10 seconds to install the hard drive (I'm assuming these would be set up for easy install, rather then unscrewing the computer or whatever, it would be more like a jazz drive) you would need two thousand people working continuously. Paying that many people, even minimum wage would cost $1,000 a second, or $864,000 a day. That's $315 million dollars a year, and that isn't even figuring in fuel costs, and extra 'overhead' labor costs (you think you can manage 2k people yourself) and all kinds of other infrastructure. Depending on how far you need to ship, you could probably lay your own DWDM. Lines. One tech from allows 1.6tbits per second, or 200gb/sec over a single line. You would only need 100 separate fibers to get 20tb/second of bandwidth, and that whole setup would probably cost much less then all that infrastructure.

Or these guys

The names are similar, and they have money.... That is all it seems to get some larger corps knickers in a bunch now a days.

This is why I no longer work for the Flaming Asshole (we all called it that, I mean look at the logo).

So if anyone wonders why nothing good ever gets done from our company, this is why.

example 1
example 2
example 3

A few years ago I worked on a project with Lucent that dealt with an in-memory database system that Bell Labs invented in 1995. It was called DataBlitz and was part of their QTM platform.

I can't find any public technical details, but DataBlitz is mentioned here and here, and I'm sure if anyone wanted they could google it for more. I'm still obligated to keep my mouth shut, though.. let me just say it seemed like a very hokey system that was prone to many problems.

The system requirements for QTM was outrageous .. the smallest machine I worked on was a 4-banger Sun with 32 gigs of RAM.

I think, for a "Green Field" install, CDMA is an automatic winner over GSM (and the Chinese agree).

1: CDMA is a superior technology for a number of reasons:

(a) It makes better use of spectrum = more bandwidth

(b) It takes less power = longer battery life

(c) It doesn't totally screw with hearing aids or anything else that picks up its dumb-ass pulses. After the pounding Iraq is taking, not messing with hearing aids will probably be a big issue. Nothing like a MOAB within a few clicks of you to make Mettalica seem GOOD for your hearing!

2: Since we are the ones who will be rebuilding Iraq, we should get to decide what we donate.

3: fsck the French (or En Francais: Allez vous faire foutre chez les Grecs, bande de Laches, faineants!), so we should choose a technology that they DON'T make, so they NEVER get a DIME from the country.

BTW: Issa is a Lebanese American. I've actually sat next to him on a plane. Bright guy. EE who started a car alarm company, which is how he got the $ to run for congress. Apparently he thought the perspective of people who actually understood the value of the freedom in this country and worked to build a company was needed in DC. Go figure!

True story:

I had an Aironet 340 access point that was missing its antennae and required a damn serial cable and terminal to be configured by command line. I got sick of it, and decided to sell it on eBay. It went for $200 with multiple bids.

After that, I went and bought a D-Link 714P+ router, which had a built in switch, built in print server (works with Linux, although not supported), SPI, higher encryption (256 bit WEP), twice the speed if you use their hardware, anteannae, and Web Based administration (no shitty serial cable for me) for $170.

I actually made money by switching to a better product!

I can't imagine why anyone would buy Cisco equipment on the low end or the high end anymore, except for consistency among equipment maybe.

Intelligent Antennas and BLAST for 3G - CDMA

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