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.
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
1600- & 1700-series routers as their CPE. They are good routers, but
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
Cisco the 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.
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