[46248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: long distance gigabit ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Fri Mar 22 11:47:36 2002
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:46:33 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Greg Pendergrass <greg@band-x.com>
Cc: "'Nanog@Merit. Edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:36:22AM -0500, Greg Pendergrass wrote:
>
> I'm looking at long-haul gigabit ethernet as a possible solution versus
> traditional SONET and I'm a little bit wary as promises made on web pages
> and white papers aren't *always* completely accurate. I'd appreciate it if
> you all would share your experiences with it. By long-haul I mean in the
> hundreds or thousands of miles. I need to know:
>
> a. Does it work properly?
>
> b. Who offers it in the continental US?
I'm going to take a stab and assume that you're actually more interested
in finding a longhaul line with GigE on the ends, and not so much how many
miles you can get with whatever optics...
Rumor has it AT&T was offering a long-haul gige service, though I havn't
actually seen it with my own eyes. I'm certain others are as well, though
it takes a while to overcome the well-engranded traditions and beliefs
about "LAN vs WAN technology" and all that nonsense... Short of that,
Cogent offers a layer 3 transport service with gige on both ends as an
option... :)
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