Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now?

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Lopez 12/4/2012 | 7:45:30 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? Anyone have any info on this router?

How many slots? What kind of linecards?

Charlotte's web page is little help, and actually contradictory in some places.

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Lopez 12/4/2012 | 7:45:30 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? You list the original test router as being a 12401, it was actually a 12416.

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last_smart_guy 12/4/2012 | 7:45:29 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? I saw this router on SuperComm.
As far as I remember it has 16 slots each one supporting 10 Gigs of interfaces, i.e. 1 OC192 or 4 OC48.

I think they also showed there 16 OC12 in a slot.

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mboeing 12/4/2012 | 7:45:29 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? I like the statement "its also possible that its M160 wasn't configured as well as it might have been" in the article. I would suppose that a box with only half of the slots having line cards is very Juniper-friendly. :)

Has anybody seen the Areana-1 in a real network?

/MAB.

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tink 12/4/2012 | 7:45:28 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? One ups the ante, not the anti.

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lucidity 12/4/2012 | 7:45:26 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? Isn't the correct company name Charlotte's Web Networks?

lucidity

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skeptic 12/4/2012 | 7:45:26 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now?
CWNT made the classic mistake of having a
"build it and they will come" mindset. The
product has been working for a while, but
they can't get much traction at customer sites.
Its all they can do to keep themselves even on the
"rader screens" of the people who watch this
space.

They made a mistake in that they seriously
embarrassed themselves in the light reading
tests by going in before they were ready.

And since then, they have been obsessively
focused on "correcting" their failure in the
test results. And in my opinion, its a wrong
focus for them. They have to build relationships
with customers and sell their product. And
benchmarks are only a side-issue in doing that.

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capolite 12/4/2012 | 7:45:26 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? Give the writer the benefit of the doubt - it was a Freudian slip. They were trying to increase their anti-Cisco, anti-Juniper, etc.

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Kevin Mitchell 12/4/2012 | 7:45:17 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? Actually, they WERE named Charlotte's Web Networks, but had to change since Disney owns the rights to that name.

Speaking of anti, this company is the ANTI marketing company. Juniper was too, but let their performance speak for itself. Charlotte's Networks' representatives don't return phone calls.

I'm surprised they got to quote anyone, unless it was from the press release. I give them 6 more months before they close shop.

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Neophone 12/4/2012 | 7:45:11 PM

re: Charlotte's Web: Who's Best Now? Nietzsche said:
"I give them 6 more months before they close shop."

do any new start up have chance to live?
and are they still downgrade or have been the lowest?

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