[127592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Sat Jul 3 20:11:37 2010
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 17:12:14 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net>
To: Scott Berkman <scott@sberkman.net>
In-Reply-To: <01c101cb1b08$0c569400$2503bc00$@net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 07:32:48PM -0400, Scott Berkman wrote:
> I really wouldn't use the word legacy to describe SONET and OC-3's.
It's around 25 years old (work started in 1985, first standards
published in 1988) and we now have a ratified 100G Ethernet standard.
Much of it is being used to transport subrate links, some of
which are derived from even older transport standards.
If not legacy, what word WOULD you use?
--msa
