[19654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Leinen)
Mon Sep 21 05:47:50 1998
To: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, tdk-backbone@t.dk
From: Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch>
In-Reply-To: Jesper Skriver's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:57:08 +0200"
Date: 21 Sep 1998 11:10:42 +0200
>>>>> "js" == Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> writes:
> How would you loadshare over many (>6) parallel E1 links. [...]
> I've been thinking om something similar to the Larscom inverse MUX
> (http://www.larscom.com/t3ft3/t3_megae.htm), but this one only support
> 4 E1's, then I can use multiple i-mux's and loadshare over the 8M links
> they provide, but it seems like a poor solution.
We use Larscom Orion 4000s for 6 transatlantic E1 links. The E1 cards
have eight ports, with HSSI connections to the routers (75xx).
You can look at the actual throughput under
http://www.switch.ch/lan/stat/linkusa.html
Hope this helps,
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