Quote of the day

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

It's early in the day, but I think this is the winner:

Sales drone: "Can you tell from looking at their account how many people are using their ISDN connection?"

Bonus quote (because I just remembered it from a couple of months ago):

Cow-worker: "Four T1s isn't 6Mb/s. It doesn't work that way."

See you Monday. :(

Comments

how poignant

[ebtb.livejournal.com]

Our supervisor once made a very clever and accurate observation of a Sales Rep's brain. He held up an empty 2 liter bottle and said: if you fill this up with oatmeal and paperclips and shake it up a little - that is a rep's brain.

How disturbingly true that is.

[(Anonymous)]

Cow-worker: "Four T1s isn't 6Mb/s. It doesn't work that way."
Actually it depends on how you set it up - for instance with a pair of CISCO routers, you can use BGP to bind all 4 paths together.

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should clarify that we use ip load-sharing per-packet on multiple T1s, as we were doing for the customer he was talking to. :)

[flainn.livejournal.com]

You have customers using ISDN? Wow, old-school.

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

Seriously! In the two years I've worked here, I can count the number of ISDN encounters I've had on one hand. Talk about a baptism of fire.

[travisd.livejournal.com]

Uh, no - BGP is a routing protocol -- it could decide WHICH T1 to advertise a better route for a subnet, but it has nothing to do with fitting more than 1.544Mb/s of traffic thru.

Multilink-PPP though can bind multiple pipes together and get more aggregate thruput. It's not Cisco specific. Neither is BGP for that matter.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Cow-worker? What happened to cow orker? :(

Still, ISDN. I can remember that. :)

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

And I wonder if my dad is still using it ... he lives on a farm, poor sod.

[flainn.livejournal.com]

pwn3d!

[flainn.livejournal.com]

It beats dialup, especially if you have two B-channels.

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

still using it here for some links, as it's too expensive for t1 and dsl isn't available at the facility.

still have an end facility on dialup actually, as even ISDN isn't available.

[mawz.livejournal.com]

Actually, you can do per-session load sharing via BGP or static routing, we do it all the time. The only requirement is that all links be on the same router and card.

There are several ways to get per-packet load sharing (which is necessary to get full 6MB/s from 4xT1) but BGP isn't one of them.

[jecook]

Icky.

The last place I worked for had (get this) frame over ISDN, running at a whoppping 110Kbps. And we were probably the only customer that used that type of circuit, because I always kept getting tossed between frame and the ISDN folks whenever I tried to get information from the telco on it...

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

I remember considering ISDN for the house some years ago.... what was it - the late 80s, early 90s?

[fearrett.livejournal.com]

Hehehehehe...


ISDN.

Poord Sods

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm 26 and I know what ISDN is! Haha.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

It Still Does Nothing?

[network-nerd.livejournal.com]

If ISDN had lived up to its hype, nobody would ever have bothered to invent "56K" dial-up.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

Same here. About three in 23 months.
Nobody in their right mind would use ISDN, if A/SH/SDSL is available.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

Young. At 19, I knew what it was.
I'm 22 (minus a few days) now.