Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

[Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>]

> In part because I'm realizing that it is literally viable to plonk a 6509
> into the colo, get a 10G uplink and pump out a bunch of 1000base?X
> connections (or even 100base?X) to customers at a fairly low price
> per port. In this case, there wouldn't be any active L2 termination at
> the customer other than a media converter or router with an appropriate
> SFP.
>
> Owen
Just so you know, this isn't viable, at least not to scale.  You can on the
other hand use Cisco's ME line to do this even less expensively (so long as
you weren't planning on buying used 6509).



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