This was just the

primary reason why we dropped out the customers from the PC a few years ago. Another reason was the stability - the piece of hardware withouth the disks (Cisco) seems to be just more stable than PC with (often) badly designed fans, power supply and rotating disks...

I've played with some Torrent/Ericcson equipment. They had the foresight to utilize pcmcia flash devices as the stoage on their pc-based RSP. Very nice stuff. Its been a while since I've played with it, however. Michael Heller Sr. Systems Engineer Earthweb, Inc. 212.448.4175 mikeh@earthweb.com