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Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:35:50 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Bryan King wrote:
You can use them as a simple Ethernet bridge if that is all you need/want, but they also will handle VLAN tagging, tag-in-tag, VLAN switching, rate-limiting, CoS, etc. Some people don't like them because there is no CLI for management only a web-based GUI and SNMP.
I used some RAD T3-FE media converters from 8 years back or so. They had really small buffers (just a few ms) so if power usage is not a problem, I'd definitely recommend a used 7200 (non-vxr) with NPE-225 and IO-FE and a PA-T3. It probably uses 10x more power than the T3-FE converter, but it does a much better job of getting the traffic thru in a nice friendly manner (fair-queue is really nice).
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Ethernet over DS3 Converters Brad Fleming (Nov 23)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Bryan King (Nov 23)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Mikael Abrahamsson (Nov 23)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Vincent Tolorraerto (Nov 23)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Matthew Petach (Nov 23)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Shane Ronan (Nov 24)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Jason Rowley (Nov 24)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Bret Clark (Nov 24)
- RE: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Uri Joskovitch (Nov 24)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Bret Clark (Nov 24)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Justin Shore (Nov 24)
- Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters Bryan King (Nov 23)