[46249] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: long distance gigabit ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Pendergrass)
Fri Mar 22 11:55:54 2002
From: "Greg Pendergrass" <greg@band-x.com>
To: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: "'Nanog@Merit. Edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:54:05 -0500
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From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:ras@e-gerbil.net]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:47 AM
To: Greg Pendergrass
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Subject: Re: long distance gigabit ethernet
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...
Absolutely right, I don't care what's in between as long as I have GigE at
the end. Other options include using wave (too expensive), or ethernet over
MPLS (worth considering although latency may be too high for longer that
1000 miles).
GP
