[127605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Sun Jul 4 09:25:45 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinxJ5Ia9tz_vnaL5fOQZyxVEhqFmIsonE83cJyl@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:25:09 -0300
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If your routing platform doesn't have POS OC-3, you can use a
converter to map Ethernet services to it and keep using the platform
you've been using. You lose a little on efficiency and failure
detection, but turning BFD on might help:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Routing/BFD
I've worked with converters from a local industry and I don't think
they ship worldwide; in the US I would take at look at RAD, Transition
Networks, Allied Telesis and probably some others.
This is an issue not specific to Mikrotik; my experience with such a
solution was with Cisco switch-routers that could do up to MPLS but
had only Ethernet interfaces.
Rubens
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Alan Bryant <alan@gtekcommunications.com> 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.
>
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