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Maybe NEC will use the Thai floods as an excuse to run down the DSX. They are reopening some of their old manufacturing plants in Japan for the SV range and getting temporary work visas for Thai workers to go to Japan and keep product being manufactured. They need the Thai workers as all the Japanese skill sets went when it was move to Thailand..

Very unlikely. The DSX is an inexpensive easy to program system that sells very well. I think a number of DSX sellers would consider something else other than NEC if it went away. The SV and SL isn't nearly as friendly programming.

We've put in a fair bit of DSX and been quite happy for a low end system. It's one of the best I've ever seen.

They'll have the plants back on line and I suspect, just like the computer manufacturers, they'll have a strong plan B now to prevent something like this in the future.

yippee....https://www.necsl1100.com/Resources.html
Now there are tutorials on how to do most things on the Aspire/UX5000/SV8100.

Is nothing sacred to the dealers?

Applied Computer Technologies? (Independence, MO)

I can see how it's gonna hit big time white boxers and OEMs who buy in a 100K drives at a go. And eventually that'll trickle down to 'big box' suppliers like New Egg as the HD manufaturers start routing that limited inventory to the big OEMs. It'll essentially manifest as a price hike to the little guys and those ordering a grand or so at a time, all the way down to a higher increase to end-users buying a new drive. I don't believe all of the hype however as the scramble to snatch up all the remaining hard drives hasn't hit any of my big box vendors where I can pick up a 500GB seagate for ~$80 as we speak. Supposedly the shortage may last well into 2013...bah.

I guess I'm a bit unclear as to how the programming is any more or less 'easy'. I've never had the 'pleasure' of working with a DSX, but have experience with the IPKII and the SV. So are you saying the programming for the SL is quite similar to the SV8x ?

junkbox: Yes the programming looks the same as the SV8100/XN120/Topaz apart from the PCPro login..

looking at the hardware manual the basic design of the KSU looks very similar to the XN120/Topaz. One concern for me is the lack of a basic Rate ISDN card. I only see analog Co and PRi ISDN..

Would be nice home system :-)

I've never even seen a BRI and I've been in the phone business since 1971.

I mean, did they REALLY need another system in this market range? NEC is only hurting itself.

Really. What sort of trunking do you use up there?? Basic rate ISDN has been around since the late 1980s down here and still very popular and more reliable than some of the newer flavors or Primary rate ISDN...

Either POTs lines, T1 or PRI. Why would one even bother with BRI when PRI circuits are so cheap? (At least here)

BRI costs about the same as POTS here in this area. I used to use them on ISDN routers through the PBX for internet access for people that couldn't get anything else.