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Re: Any good Wave Boxes to do this?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Apr 9 04:56:32 2004

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:55:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4075D82F.8050607@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:

> Basically, we are trying to aggregate GEs onto the smallest number of 
> OC48s to reduce the number of CWDM waves we burn. Basically, we'd rather 
>   be able to put 10GEs onto 4 OC48s instead of 5.

You wont be able to fint 10 GEs into an OC192, you'll only fit 9 and you 
have to decode the 8b10 coding of the GE, and all this only to save 11% of 
BW.

I suspect this is the reason we see 2GE <->OC48, it's much easier and 
cheaper than anything else.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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