Re: Ethernet over DS3 Converters

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

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).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se