[151832] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: airFiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John van Oppen)
Sat Mar 31 14:22:34 2012
From: John van Oppen <jvanoppen@spectrumnet.us>
To: 'Andrew McConachie' <smutt@depht.com>, Marshall Eubanks
<marshall.eubanks@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:21:57 +0000
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Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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We actually have a lot of the old gigabeam radios in service, they are fast=
er than the published specs of the airfiber links (1G full duplex vs 750 mb=
it/sec fd) and lower latency due to their very simplistic design. To be=
honest, from a network engineering standpoint, the gigabeams were convenin=
et as path issues would show up as ethernet errors that can be used to trig=
ger reroutes or other events. That being said, we did not have a large v=
ariety of switches as the microwave side of our house is made up entirely o=
f just a couple of cisco models. The gigabeams also have a pure OOB mana=
gement setup.
John
