[v6test] Last minute hardware assistance

[Kevin Day]

This is a long shot, and I really hate to do this, but just in case:

About three dozen companies and individuals have been gracious enough  
to donate their time, resources, bandwidth or videos to this  
experiment, something that I am extremely grateful for. So far just  
about everyone has come through wonderfully with what they've  
volunteered. I had a used networking hardware company that had  
approached me and offered to donate to us a few pieces of equipment  
that they had in their inventory, in exchange for a "Sponsored by:"  
mention on the site. Many months have passed, and as far as I can tell  
that company has disappeared completely. (Phone is disconnected,  
domain now belongs to some squatters, etc)

If anyone watching happens to have any of these items and would be  
willing to donate/loan/rent/something these to us, it would be of  
unimaginable help. My company has already committed to spend tens of  
thousands of dollars on this experiment, but our budget for this is  
already long gone. So, I'm struggling to find a way to pay for these  
last minute expenses. I've managed to beg and borrow everything else  
that was still outstanding from them except these three things.

Items still needed:

Adaptive Services PIC for a Juniper M-Series router. (P, PE or PB,  
doesn't matter) - Qty 1
HP Procurve J4907A module for a 5300xl switch (16 port 10/100/1000  
Module) - Qty 4 would be ideal.
Any kind of SAN, NAS or external RAID/JBOD storage device that's big  
and fast enough for some serious amounts of logging - We were  
originally getting a used 5TB FibreChannel box. Exact specs don't  
matter.

If anyone has any of those sitting around unused, let me know(off- 
list) and I'll do what I can to work out a mutually beneficial deal.  
If you have one of these and want more details as to exactly what  
they'd be used for, I'm happy to oblige.

Everything will still proceed if I can't find a source for these,  
there's no danger of us not launching because of missing hardware.  
Everything is functional now - I just may have to scale back the  
logging and data recording goals.


Bonus update: We're going to put a few samples of the content up on  
the v6 side in a few days to let everyone on the mailing list do some  
test downloads to look for any obvious connectivity problems we might  
be having. The rest of our transit connections should be up this week.

-- Kevin
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