Sun Ultra Enterprise 3500. Three power supplies for redundancy, only *one* power cord. You'd think that with something that originally cost 6 figures, that this would have been thought out a bit more. Oh, and 1U patch panels with only 12 ports in them annoy me.

-----Original Message----- From: Matt [mailto:acheron@qwest.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:43 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Worst design decisions?

Hello all,

Was doing some upgrades on a UBR7246 (to a VXR), and I got to thinking about short sighted design considerations. I was curious if any of you had some pet peeves from a design perspective to rant about. I'll start with a couple.

1) Why did Cisco design the I/O controller on the 7246 with screws in the corner, which are very difficult to get at? And worse than that, why did they not include a cheap handle on the blank in this slot?

2) Why did Cisco not include side handles on the 12000 chassis? It's a heavy chassis, and I can imagine how many techs have thrown out their back moving that chassis around.

I've got a couple others in my head from 3Com and a couple of others, but I thought I'd get the ball rolling. So, what do you think?