Re: tlug: ISDN routers

[Jim Tittsler <jwt@example.com>]

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tlug note from Jim Tittsler <jwt@example.com>
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Straying rather far away from Linux (since I've not found an internal
ISDN TA with Linux support here in Japan :-), but I recently wrote this
for one of the Tokyo PC Users Group mailing lists:

>On Wednesday, NTT announced a new router, the MN128-SOHO which has a list
>price of Y59,800 (Y69,800 with DSU).  It is scheduled to ship June 13th.
>http://www.sphere.ad.jp/te-tokyo/soho_topics.htm
>
>I spent a little time in Akihabara this afternoon looking at ISDN routers.
>Good places to look for routers/DSUs seem to be Plat'home and Soft Create.
>
>The cheapest one appears to be the Fujitsu NetVehicle with a street
>price of Y46,800.  It will handle NAT for 2 machines, and act as a
>DHCP server for up to 16.
>http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/Products/telecom/NV/
>
>Plat'home had the MuchoST on sale last weekend for Y52,000.  Unfortunately
>it seems to be back to its standard street price of Y69,000 today.  This
>appears to have one of the best software stacks available.
>http://www.furukawa.co.jp/network/
>
>BayNetworks has introduced a low cost family of products under the
>NetGear label.  The RT210 is Y59,000 in a cute little housing.  It
>even is available with an English manual.  It does not do NAT or DHCP.
>Unfortunately, the salesman couldn't tell me for certain if it was
>okay for use with OCN.
>http://netgear.baynetworks.com/ds_rt200s/index.html
>
>There are quite a number of offerings in the 75,000 to 90,000 range
>including SII, Ascend, Cisco, Buffalo, and NTT.
>
>Cisco has the 761 (Y75,800) and 765 (Y96,800), the latter of which
>includes two analog ports.
>http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/728/700/c700_ds.htm
>
>Ascend has a huge range of routers with a variety of options starting
>with the Ascend 25PX for about 87,000.
>
>Farallon's Netopia series also seems like a possibility.
>http://www.farallon.com/product/netopia/rouglanc.html

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Jim Tittsler  7j1ajh@example.com  http://www.dtinet.or.jp/~tpc/
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