Re: long distance gigabit ethernet

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>]

        The cost of the GE modules that are
capable of doing this are much lower
than oc48 type interfaces for a router.

        If someone is building a cheap network
(see rfc1925) it may not be their first
choice to do so but what is forced
upon them.

        - jared

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:19:21AM -0800, Jon Mansey wrote:
> Sorry if this is a naive question, but why would you want to do layer 2 
> over WAN distances anyways? Whats wrong with good old SONET, IP and 
> routing? Do you have non-IP protocols to haul?
>
> jm
>
> On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 09:02 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Greg Pendergrass wrote:
> > > Absolutely right, I don't care what's in between as long as I have GigE 
> > > at
> > > the end. Other options include using wave (too expensive), or ethernet 
> > > over
> > > MPLS (worth considering although latency may be too high for longer that
> > > 1000 miles).
> >
> > Why would latency be too high? Just talk to one of the carriers who do
> > everything over MPLS, I'm sure they're more then interested in selling
> > some kind of "VPN services" (well someone in the company is at any rate,
> > most sales people would be flatly stumped and are more concerned with
> > trying to keep their jobs than finding you cheap longhaul anyways).
> >
> > You might want to try isp-bandwidth, it's a list more suited for finding
> > specific services you can buy and specific sales weenies who will try and
> > sell it to you. I know I've seen the GigE long-haul transport subject come
> > up a couple time there...
> >
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