[47838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CPE/OC12 Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesper Skriver)
Thu May 16 04:21:15 2002
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:20:44 +0200
From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To: "Streiner, Justin" <streiner@stargate.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205151533440.13687-100000@lurch>; from streiner@stargate.net on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:42:19PM -0400
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Streiner, Justin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Sonya Blake wrote:
>
> > What kind of OC12 CPE devices (routers) are people using out there?
> > Initially for Internet connectivity, but probably would need to do advance
> > features, i.e. BGP, etc.
>
> Are you referring to an OC12c that you're using as a single 622 Mb/s pipe,
> or an OC12 that you're bringing into a SONET add/drop mux and breaking out
> STS-1 slots for DS3s or OC3/OC3c slots?
>
> If you're talking about an OC12c, your choices would probably be:
> Cisco 7600
> Cisco 10000
> Cisco 12xxx
> Juniper M-series - I think even an M5 could do an OC12c, though I'm not
> sure.
Yes, a M5 has 4 slots each capable of OC12, GigE or lower speed
interfaces.
> Other offerings by Riverstone, Avici and others that I'm not as familiar
> with.
>
> You can put an OC12c into a Cisco 7200/7500 *in theory* using an OC12c DPT
> card, but the router will likely crap out long before you come close to
> saturating the pipe.
Amen
/Jesper
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