Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

1695.0. "DEChub90 positioning" by MXOC00::GCORTES () Tue Nov 15 1994 17:54

         Hi!
         
         I have been working on product positioning on the DEChub 
         90 Starter Pack with the 24 ports as offered and 
         with/with out management. I have consulted several 
         sources:
         
         
              [1]  SynOptics Product Overview (Fall/Winter 1994),
              
              [2]  Networks Sales Kit,
         
              [3]  Q1/FY95 Network Sales Training-in-a-box and
         
              [4]  Network Guide to Competitive Selling
         
         And my conclusions so far are:
         
         Digital   	   DEChub90 Starter Pack
         
         SynOptics 	   Lattice System 2800
              	   	   	2800A 	no management and
              	   	   	2813-05 with SNMP management.
         
         3 Comm	   	   Hublink Builder
              	   	   	ECS for Chassis and
              	   	   	FMS Stackable
         
         Cabletron 	   HubSTACK and MMAC-8
         
         HP   	   	   HP Advance Stack
         
         Ungermann Bass	   Access/stax
         
         Chipcom   	   5006C  (�?)
         
         
         Since I am no expert on the subject, the question is 
         does any body agree or disagree?
         
         These are my own remarks:
         
         
         Synoptics:	Could compare in the low level with the 
                        Lattice System 800, but it has no 
                        expandability. On the other hand, I 
                        refuse to position our DEChub 90 against 
                        the 3000 (as in [3] and [4] above, since 
                        the latter compares with our DEChub 900)
         
         Cabletron:	To my understanding, the hubSTACK is 
                        both, cheaper and newer than the MMAC-8.
         
         HP:  	   	Advance Stack is newer than EtherTwist
         
         Chipcom:  	I have no idea if this is at all true or 
                        updated.
         
         
         Please let me know your inputs, so that I can produce an 
         accurate table.
         
         By the way, is there anybody in the marketing side of 
         the NPB doing this, it may be that I should not be doing 
         it at all, but I did not find any thing of the like in 
         the net.
         
         
         
         Thanks in advance.