[127583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sat Jul 3 15:40:57 2010
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:40:20 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4C2F8DE3.2070001@tiedyenetworks.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/3/10 12:22 PM, Mike wrote:
> Alan Bryant wrote:
>> I haven't seen much traffic on this list about Mikrotik or RouterOS,
>> but I thought it was worth a shot as a last ditch effort to get this
>> going.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a solution to connect a POS OC-3 to a router
>> running Mikrotik's RouterOS? I have searched google extensively with
>> varying phrases and nothing helpful comes out of it.
>>
>>
> Mikrotik is great at lower end stuff where you have ethernet interfaces.
> Real POS OC-3 however, ain't in it's repertory and would not be what I
> would choose to route at those interfaces/speeds. However, if you must
> 'connect mikrotik to oc-3', you might as well find yourself a cisco
> router of some kind with a PA-POS-OC3 card and use it as a simple modem.
> Of course, for the price, you might as well just let the cisco do what
> you're planning on doing with the Mikrotik and get orders of magnitude
> of functionality and stability out of it in the process.
>
That's what I was going to say. ;)
Once you reach SONET land you're no longer playing in the "everything is
Ethernet" playground that they specializes in. I would say that you've
outgrown your Mikrotik routers if you need SONET interfaces and it's
time to forklift into a Cisco or Juniper.
~Seth
