From: Jake (jakeczyz@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 21:45:38 GMT-3
It was an easy couple of points on the Lab. ;-)
Here's a little Off Topic story:
I wish I could tell you guys the name, but the President of our company (multi
billion
dollar financial, fortune 500, with 60,000 worldwide employees) has his PC stil
l on 16 MB
token ring connected to an old IBM 8228 MAU (look on ebay for a picture). Meanw
hile,
everyone around him has got a dedicated FE port on a 6500. I'm sorry, but I fin
d this
amusing. Turns out, he's got the same PC image as the stock brokers in our firm
which
needs TR because of some old trading application. Actually, the building I supp
ort also
has a room full of full-time IBM employees (we pay big blue for some managed se
rvices),
who are also still on TR, and apparently there's no plans to move them to FE fo
r another
two years! Maybe they are sentimental about their pet technology. Then again, m
y company
still has most of their file servers running OS/2. ;-6
J
--- elping <elping@acedsl.com> wrote:
> yep ...
>
> that seems to be the case...I think they will try to get the switching back i
nto
> routing and switching....
>
> expect to see more switching ....
>
>
> Jeff Duchin wrote:
>
> > This would probably mean pulling this out of the lab I would think?!
> >
> > Product Bulletin 1644
> > Catalyst 3900 and 3920 Token Ring Switch End of Sale Announcement
> > Introduction
> > Cisco Systems announces the End of Sale and End of Life for the Catalyst.
> > 3900 and 3920 Token Ring switches.
> >
> > Overview
> > In 1997, Cisco introduced the second-generation family of Token Ring
> > switchesfthe Catalyst 3900 stackable Token Ring switch, followed a few
> > months later by the Catalyst 3920 stackable Token Ring switch. These
> > products quickly gained a high level of customer acceptance and have
> > subsequently been installed in thousands of mission-critical Token Ring
> > networks worldwide. However, since that time the number of customers
> > continuing to use Token Ring has decreased dramatically, with most customer
s
> > converting to networks based on Ethernet. The demand for Token Ring product
s
> > is now at a very low level. Vendors that produce chips used for the
> > production of these products are discontinuing those chips, making the
> > continuing production impossible without expensive redesign. Considering th
e
> > low level of demand, it is not practical for Cisco to undertake this
> > redesign. Cisco is, therefore, announcing the End of Sale of the products
> > listed in Table 1, effective February 12, 2003. There are no replacement
> > products. Cisco is making this announcement a full year prior to actual End
> > of Sale to give customers who have not yet completed migration to Ethernet
> > an opportunity to adjust their plans as necessary. Table 2 describes the
> > dates associated with this announcement.
> >
> > Table 2: Milestones for the Catalyst 3900 Series Products Milestone
> > Effective Date
> > End of Sale Announcement
> > February 12, 2002
> >
> > End of Sale
> > February 12, 2003
> >
> > Discontinue Contract Renewal
> > March 1, 2006
> >
> > End of Support/End of Life
> > March 1, 2007
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > Office: (703) 736-4083
> > Mobile: (301) 305-0122
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