Re: Any good Wave Boxes to do this?

[Matthew Crocker <matthew () crocker com>]

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