[115842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Point to Point Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Jul 10 11:49:00 2009
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:48:09 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20090710153848.GB1049002@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Chris Adams wrote:
> 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.
>
I just ordered a circuit to be delivered over Ethernet - Verizon just
plugged a pair of STM-1's into an ISG5100 and it's suddenly ridiculously
cheaper.
~Seth
