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Re: Security over SONET/SDH

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Sun Jun 23 19:25:18 2013

Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 16:24:47 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
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--- william.allen.simpson@gmail.com wrote:
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>

On 6/23/13 12:48 AM, Scott Weeks wrote:
> By security protocol do you mean encrypting the traffic?
> Like what a Fastlane does?
>
> http://www.gdc4s.com/Documents/Products/SecureVoiceData/NetworkEncryption/GD-FASTLANE-w.pdf
>
That's rather a surprising choice (ATM product) for an IP network.
Please describe what backbone you are running that uses a FASTLANE?

Hopefully, other folks are securing their PPP or ethernet packets?
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A network that's going to change very soon. :-)  What I meant is that 
what you mean by security protocols.  I didn't follow completely.

scott





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