[69371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any good Wave Boxes to do this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Crocker)
Thu Apr 8 18:35:14 2004
In-Reply-To: <4075BEAD.7010304@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:34:41 -0400
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Apr 8, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
>
> I have seen boxes from MRV and others that will do 2GE into an OC48. I
> really feel bad about "wasting" that 500mb/s on essentially an IP
> application, but can't really justify putting OC48 ports into a
> catalyst 6500 of this application.
>
> Likewise, uplinking to a GSR just to get cheaper OC48 ports doesn't
> make sense when you count the cost of the GE ports.
>
> Is there a good box out there that will say take 2xOC48 and give me 5
> GEs?
>
Have you looked at the ONS 15454 ? You won't waste the bandwidth and
you TDM capabilities as well. You can use the muxponder cards to put 4
OC-48 IR1310s into 1 OC-192 as well. You could also use CWDM and just
run straight GE, or do you have to use OC-48 for transport?
-Matt
