Had actually received some of this gear unknowingly and while some of it does work...there were a few cases where that when a switch that would lose power the GBIC would not come back up in a 'no shut' state. Instead you had to console into the switch and issue a 'shut > no shut' on the interdace to get the port to come back. So while the technically do kind of work, it is not something I would recommend deploying in a mission critical switch/router.
Typically in a cable modem environment, the upstream ports on a CMTS are bundled together to a single downstream. In this sense, please remember that upstream is what going from the internet to the CMTS, to the cable modem (essentially the download path) and the downstream is your upload going in the opposite direction. In a typical Cisco 7200 CMTS each blade has 5 upstream ports and 1 downstream ports. If I remember correctly, each blade is recommended to serve approximately 1000 modems.
Since cable is spaced out over various frequencies on the cable plant, a larger allotment of the frequencies not being used by cable TV are given to the upstream as that is 'typically' what is in higher demand. I know I would be pissed if I was getting 128Kb down and 3Mb up. With newer technologies (ie fiber) this problem should be alleviated.
The PIX is already essentially end-of-life. When you can buy the much more powerful and feature rich ASA, you would have to be an idiot to buy the PIX.
The ASA is not really a consumer grade appliance though. At around $500 I would imagine that is a little outside the price range of most people. This device would be more geared towards a SMB or someone wanting to set up redundant internet connections.
Granted it seems like the US is often time far behind the world in most things, but speaking from experience there are quite a few TelCo's throughout the country that are currently, or soon upgrading to, using 10Gbps links within their core. Every mention of these speed increases always seems to make people think that they will have 40Gbps to their household. The purpose of these technologies is almost always to provide transport for a bunch of other traffic MUXed onto it whether it be DS3s, OCns, etc... That coupled with DWDM technology which already allows providers to send up to 80 'channels' of 10Gbps each of a single pair of fiber...it's hard to imagine ever needing that much bandwidth...
Perhaps someone can inform me how people getting laid off at Circuit City is any indicator of the status of the tech sector. Now I have never bought anything from a Circuit City but they weren't the most technically adept people I have ever talked to...just a bunch of dullards spouting numbers off of a tag and having no clue what they actually mean.
I can see Motorola and Dell, but lumping Circuit City in there is just grasping for straws
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Had actually received some of this gear unknowingly and while some of it does work...there were a few cases where that when a switch that would lose power the GBIC would not come back up in a 'no shut' state. Instead you had to console into the switch and issue a 'shut > no shut' on the interdace to get the port to come back. So while the technically do kind of work, it is not something I would recommend deploying in a mission critical switch/router.
Typically in a cable modem environment, the upstream ports on a CMTS are bundled together to a single downstream. In this sense, please remember that upstream is what going from the internet to the CMTS, to the cable modem (essentially the download path) and the downstream is your upload going in the opposite direction. In a typical Cisco 7200 CMTS each blade has 5 upstream ports and 1 downstream ports. If I remember correctly, each blade is recommended to serve approximately 1000 modems. Since cable is spaced out over various frequencies on the cable plant, a larger allotment of the frequencies not being used by cable TV are given to the upstream as that is 'typically' what is in higher demand. I know I would be pissed if I was getting 128Kb down and 3Mb up. With newer technologies (ie fiber) this problem should be alleviated.
Didn't Weeds start over a month ago? Check TV.com, but I know I have seen like 4 new episodes already.
The PIX is already essentially end-of-life. When you can buy the much more powerful and feature rich ASA, you would have to be an idiot to buy the PIX. The ASA is not really a consumer grade appliance though. At around $500 I would imagine that is a little outside the price range of most people. This device would be more geared towards a SMB or someone wanting to set up redundant internet connections.
Granted it seems like the US is often time far behind the world in most things, but speaking from experience there are quite a few TelCo's throughout the country that are currently, or soon upgrading to, using 10Gbps links within their core. Every mention of these speed increases always seems to make people think that they will have 40Gbps to their household. The purpose of these technologies is almost always to provide transport for a bunch of other traffic MUXed onto it whether it be DS3s, OCns, etc... That coupled with DWDM technology which already allows providers to send up to 80 'channels' of 10Gbps each of a single pair of fiber...it's hard to imagine ever needing that much bandwidth...
Perhaps someone can inform me how people getting laid off at Circuit City is any indicator of the status of the tech sector. Now I have never bought anything from a Circuit City but they weren't the most technically adept people I have ever talked to...just a bunch of dullards spouting numbers off of a tag and having no clue what they actually mean. I can see Motorola and Dell, but lumping Circuit City in there is just grasping for straws