[129543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: POS to Ethernet Converter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Thu Sep 9 17:05:45 2010
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:04:02 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=v4-RPH8MxUP5-5igtKSe-cgCbPham+S7ApwK0@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/9/2010 10:59, Alan Bryant wrote:
> I did a quick google search for a converter but either I'm not
> understanding, or I'm not searching for the right thing.
>
> We currently have a POS OC-3 that I would like to be able to convert
> it to Ethernet, if possible.
>
> Do such devices exist?
>
By "convert" do you mean:
1) You have a POS OC-3 from an upstream and you don't want to buy a
router that can take a serial OC-3.
or
2) You have a PTP OC-3 that you control both ends of and you want to
make it into a really long Ethernet cable.
~Seth
