[cisco-nas] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Aaron Leonard]

 > So, cisco is officially out of the dial-up hardware business now?
 >
 > Product Migration Options
 > There is no replacement available for the Cisco Digital Modem Modules 
 > at this time.

'Fraid so, sorry if this comes as a shock to you.

The good news is that the PVDM2-DM modems don't hit Last Date of Support 
till Aug. 31, 2018, so I still have to support your installation for 
another 5 years (unless I retire first :-)

If I were consumed by the desire to bring up some kind of digital modem 
bank at a customer site, I think I'd probably go onto eBay and buy a 
couple hundred pounds of AS5300/AS5350/AS5400 hardware.  Rack up half of 
them, and mound up the other half to be used as spares.

AS5300 - 4CT1 - 96 MICA modems - street price $300

Seems to me that we ought somehow to hold a proper wake for Cisco's 
digital modem business.  And I guess for this list, which started life 
as as5200 @ wwa.com ... then became cisco-nas @ external.cisco.com, then 
moved to puck.nether.net.  (Maybe I'm missing a hop in there.)

You can take a trip down memory lane via the archives at yahoo 
(http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cisco-nas/) - you can see about 300 
messages a day at the peak in Feb. '02, gradually trailing off till it 
sank beneath the noise floor, somewhere in '06.

Cheers,

Aaron

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On 8/21/2013 1:36 PM, jlewis at lewis.org (Jon Lewis) wrote:
> Holy crap.  I just helped a previous employer spec out a "patchwork cisco
> NAS" using a router, PRI interface card, and DMMs a couple months ago.
> AFAIK, they already have the gear by now.
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Aaron Leonard wrote:
>
>> Hopefully those people ordered their last digital modems before they went
>> end-of-sale two weeks ago:
>>
>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps2641/end_of_life_notice_c51-726696.html
>>
>> ... bringing to an end Cisco's proud history selling digital modem systems,
>> which began ingloriously with the AS5100, but which utlimately achieved world
>> domination via the triumph of the AS5300/AS5350/AS5400.
>>
>> Aaro
>>
>> (who is, weirdly enough, stuck as we speak on an interminable conference call
>> where a customer is troubleshooting V.34 modem calls.)
>>
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>> On 8/21/2013 6:43 AM, jlewis at lewis.org (Jon Lewis) wrote:
>>> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Eric Knudson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Doesn't he know that Dial is Dead(tm)? ;)
>>>
>>> Believe it or not, some people are still doing new dial-up gateway
>>> installations.  It's a bit more complicated now as all of cisco's
>>> dedicated dial-up gateways have gone EOL...and you now have to piece
>>> together a dial-up gateway using a modular router and various modules
>>> rather than just order an AS5xxx of suitable size.
>>>
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