What terminal server should I buy?

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From: Karl A. Anderson
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:49

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I need to buy a terminal or communications server to meet the following 
requirements:

- Ethernet interface with choice of thin- or thick-ethernet
  connections;
- Minimum of 16 dial-in ports, with ability to add more;
- Dial-in speeds of up to 38.4 Kbps;
- Minimum of 1 MB RAM, expandable;
- Security features (ID/password at least, maybe logging too)
- Support for LAT, SLIP/cSLIP/PPP, DNS, SNMP

3Com, Cisco, Telebit and Xylogics (Annex) all appear to offer products 
that meet the minimum requirements.  Are there any other vendors?  Does 
anybody have any recommendations (comp.dcom.sys.cisco readers are 
allowed to recommend Cisco :^}) or caveats, either specific or general?  
Please respond by email, as I don't ordinarily take these groups.  TIA.
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