RE: Worst design decisions?

["Austad, Jay" <JAustad () temgweb com>]

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?