[69373] in North American Network Operators' Group
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