Tammarion
11-10-2004, 10:28 PM
The article sounds like a bunch of sales hype, but it would be nice :)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=64&ncid=64&e=3&u=/fo/20041105/bs_fo/c7d438175f9035cbfed2a57be2ce87cd
Though only the size of a pizza box, the Airlok 525 contains the guts of a half-dozen machines that WISPs usually buy separately, including a router, a firewall, a storage cache to store Web pages locally for faster call-up, a bandwidth manager, a performance monitor and a computer that handles billing and authentication and authorization of users.
The all-in-one approach wipes out the glitches that arise when WISPs buy a router from Cisco, content cache from Network Appliance, performance monitor from Hewlett-Packard and so on. This mishmash is wasteful--each box requires its own microprocessor, though one could serve all--and needlessly complex, since each box has its own software, requiring WISPs to manage six different systems. Mixed systems are also prone to breakdowns, and troubleshooting is tricky because each vendor blames the others.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=64&ncid=64&e=3&u=/fo/20041105/bs_fo/c7d438175f9035cbfed2a57be2ce87cd
Though only the size of a pizza box, the Airlok 525 contains the guts of a half-dozen machines that WISPs usually buy separately, including a router, a firewall, a storage cache to store Web pages locally for faster call-up, a bandwidth manager, a performance monitor and a computer that handles billing and authentication and authorization of users.
The all-in-one approach wipes out the glitches that arise when WISPs buy a router from Cisco, content cache from Network Appliance, performance monitor from Hewlett-Packard and so on. This mishmash is wasteful--each box requires its own microprocessor, though one could serve all--and needlessly complex, since each box has its own software, requiring WISPs to manage six different systems. Mixed systems are also prone to breakdowns, and troubleshooting is tricky because each vendor blames the others.