27 Jan
1996
27 Jan
'96
6:21 a.m.
The Livingston products are not antiquated; they are in fact very up to date and selling like hotcakes, though they are annoyingly flawed from a CIDR viewpoint. In particular, the IRX router is about half the price of a Cisco 2500 most of the time, and the Portmaster dialup servers are worlds more attractive than any non-rackmount integrated alternatives, under $100 a port. It would be fair to say that Livingston has been a reasonably large part of the success of small and midsized ISPs recently. All the more important for them to get into CIDRizing their software, but... -george