[108464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Used (SONET) equipment sources/lists?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Sat Oct 4 12:54:09 2008
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 12:53:46 -0400
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <48E59EB8.8070706@mt.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Friday 03 October 2008 00:25:28 Forrest W. Christian wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can point me towards a reseller which specializes in
> this type of stuff, or another source I've overlooked.
Fujitsu FLM-150 gear is cheap, and available on the used market. In just a
quick look, a company called Bell Enterprise has a lot of that stuff.
www.bell-enterprise.com
> Of course, if someone would like to tell me a easier/different (but
> still reasonably inexpensive) way to break apart a SONET OC3 such that a
> far end DS3 can be connected to something like a PA-A3-T3 or a PA-T3
> that would work too.
Don't know about easier or different, but the FLM-150, while old, is
available.