[115841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Point to Point Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri Jul 10 11:39:01 2009
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:38:48 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com> said:
> Ethernet is cheap because it's everywhere, and built into almost
> everything. (however, the likes of Cisco and Juniper still charge insane
> amounts for line cards, be they ethernet, T1, or OC48.) Given the choice
> of buying a $4k DS3 card or just plugging into an existing, builtin
> ethernet port, which do you think most people will choose?
Also, if you are plugging in a lower-speed link, you can plug ethernet
in a <$1000 switch and trunk it to a router, while a mux for T1/T3/OCx
circuits costs a lot more.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
