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Re: Gig-E over OC48?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brett watson)
Sat Jun 22 17:30:14 2002

Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:23:05 -0700
From: brett watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
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To: nanog@merit.edu
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--On Saturday, June 22, 2002 5:02 PM -0400 Ralph Doncaster 
<ralph@istop.com> wrote:
>
> What's the cheapest way to get Gig-E over OC48?
> A couple used Cerent(Cisco) boxes would work, but the $15-$20K price tag
> is too high.

last i talked to Luminous (about 7-8 months ago) they were making pretty 
cheap RPT boxes.  i suspect in the current market, they're cheaper still. 
that is, if you don't mind doing RPT (basically DPT if i remember 
correctly).

-b

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