Re: Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 7/3/10 12:22 PM, Mike wrote:
> Alan Bryant wrote:
> > I haven't seen much traffic on this list about Mikrotik or RouterOS,
> > but I thought it was worth a shot as a last ditch effort to get this
> > going.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a solution to connect a POS OC-3 to a router
> > running Mikrotik's RouterOS? I have searched google extensively with
> > varying phrases and nothing helpful comes out of it.
> >
> >   
> Mikrotik is great at lower end stuff where you have ethernet interfaces.
> Real POS OC-3 however, ain't in it's repertory and would not be what I
> would choose to route at those interfaces/speeds. However, if you must
> 'connect mikrotik to oc-3', you might as well find yourself a cisco
> router of some kind with a PA-POS-OC3 card and use it as a simple modem.
> Of course, for the price, you might as well just let the cisco do what
> you're planning on doing with the Mikrotik and get orders of magnitude
> of functionality and stability out of it in the process.


That's what I was going to say. ;)

Once you reach SONET land you're no longer playing in the "everything is
Ethernet" playground that they specializes in. I would say that you've
outgrown your Mikrotik routers if you need SONET interfaces and it's
time to forklift into a Cisco or Juniper.

~Seth