nanog mailing list archives
Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 02:37:53 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 11 May 2010, Alastair Johnson wrote:
Welcome to what telcos have been dealing with for 10 to 20 years with product lifecycles. The PSTN isn't exactly a growing market, and has lots of EOL switches, yet it continues to run. Secondary support markets, grey markets, and strategic migrations to carry internal sparing.Or you find a cost effective way to replace it with something; or you accept that the revenue vs. cost-to-maintain is too high and just kill the product.
Some telcos are starting to kill off legacy services as they reach the end of their life cycle. I saw an application from Verizon in West Virginia to modify their tariff to remove SMDS as a service. According to the filing, no customers were using it and vendor support for it was coming to an end. I'm assuming at some point that Verizon stopped selling the service and quietly told any remaining customers that they needed to transition to other services because SMDS would be turned off on a certain date. I've heard of some LECs starting to mull dropping frame relay as a supported service as well...
jms
Current thread:
- Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Jerry Bonner (May 10)
- RE: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Scott Berkman (May 10)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Bill Fehring (May 10)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Mark Foster (May 10)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Alastair Johnson (May 10)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Justin M. Streiner (May 10)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. sthaug (May 12)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Bill Fehring (May 10)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Curtis Maurand (May 11)
- RE: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Gregory J. Boehnlein (May 11)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Justin Wilson (May 11)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Mark Foster (May 11)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. JC Dill (May 12)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Jared Mauch (May 12)
- RE: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Scott Berkman (May 10)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. Alastair Johnson (May 14)
- Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P. joel jaeggli (May 14)