10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
7:37 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Heh. None, although the plugtop PSUs that came with certain Alvarion
wireless bridges had a tendency to fail and cause weird problems like
the bridge constantly rebooting - it would display the first few
characters of its startup message, and then <BLINK BLINK> on the status
lights, and it's booting up again.
I tested 20 of the "suspect" PSUs. Four of them failed, hard. Failed
hard as in "blew the case apart" failed. No, I don't know how they
managed it.
Gordon
A company I
worked for a couple of years ago dropped Cisco and went for
a Chinese company called Level One. They weren't exactly brilliant, but
they were a quarter of the price. Oh, and crucially - and this is
important for unattended sites - we didn't have any unexplained PSU
fires (yes, fires) like we had with Cisco.
OK, and how many _expalained_ PSU fires did you get with Level One?