[127593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sat Jul 3 20:25:44 2010
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:25:35 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100704001214.GF21858@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/3/2010 17:12, Majdi S. Abbas wrote:
> 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?
>
I'd start calling it legacy when it's as easy to order from your telco
as X.25 would be. I still see Ethernet circuits delivered via OC-3/STM-1
today with an Overture. If you're throwing OC-3 into the legacy bin you
might as well call OC-192 and OC-768 legacy as well. Big deal if the
standard is old, apparently it's still useful enough that there isn't a
replacement yet.
~Seth
