[VoiceOps] Problems with defective Adtran TA900s

[Mark Holloway]

You're not alone.

On Oct 15, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Owen Roth wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We deploy the total range of Adtran TA900s as CPE feature-rich  
> boxes, and in general like the product. However, of the last 25  
> Adtran TA 900s we've deployed, we've had 6 with confirmed hardware  
> defects where the symptoms range from the obvious hardware crashes,  
> to much trickier and costly bugs to find, such as bad DSPs, and one  
> that had a bad clocking chip. Adtran claims I'm alone in this, and  
> it's gotten to the point where I'm seriously considering building a  
> quality control TA900 tester in the lab to torture all prospective  
> field boxes. Anyone notice anything like this percentage of defects?
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Owen Roth
> Network Engineer
> Impulse Internet Services
> http://impulse.net/customer-support
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