[76358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Setting up DS-3 and 2 4xT1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Dec 7 18:00:24 2004
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:59:16 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041207215201.GB10911@darkuncle.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Scott Francis wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:50:47AM -0500, somitho@gmail.com said:
>
>>My apologies if some may find this a little off-topic.
>>
>>However, here is my issue. I need a router, which can take 2 4xT1's
>>and a DS-3, while handing a Gbit for internal use. Now to complicate
>>the entire situation, this needs to go into a 3 bedroom apartment, so
>>I need to keep the power bills down if I can :)
>>
>>What would everyone recommend? Off-List replies are fine, I will
>>summarize at the end.
>
>
> x86 PC with a gig-E, DS-3 and however many DS-1 PCI cards you need. Sangoma[0]
> and SBE Inc.[1] both sell these (*BSD/Linux compatibility was a big selling
> point for me). You can even get a Soekris box with one of the Sangoma T1
> cards pre-installed for you.
>
> [0] http://www.sangoma.com/
> [1] http://www.sbei.com/
Imagestream (www.imagestream.com)routers may work for you as well. They
are essentially x86 based and probably support a high number of T-1
cards. Electricity consumption is probably better with a lower
power/lower heat PC motherboard than an off-the-shelf solution -- that'd
be my guess.
Deepak
