Re: Security over SONET/SDH

[William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson () gmail com>]

On 6/23/13 10:57 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Christopher Morrow
> <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:47 AM, William Allen Simpson
> > <william.allen.simpson () gmail com> wrote:
> > > On 6/23/13 12:48 AM, Scott Weeks wrote:
> > > > http://www.gdc4s.com/Documents/Products/SecureVoiceData/NetworkEncryption/GD-FASTLANE-w.pdf
> > > That's rather a surprising choice (ATM product) for an IP network.
> > > Please describe what backbone you are running that uses a FASTLANE?
> >
> > I'd be surprised if a civilian org could buy a fastlane device,..
> > maybe they moved out of the gov't only world though since the last
> > time I saw one? It does claim to do oc-48 rate sonet though.
>
> http://www.gdc4s.com/kg-530.html
>
> claims 40gbps... I don't know that a purely civilian org can purchase
> these though, nor the kg-75, despite these being on the GD site.
And at $189,950 MSRP, obviously every ISP is dashing out the door
for a pair for each and every long haul fiber link. ;-)

Hard to see the IETF multi-vendor interoperability specifications.  It
does mention SNMPv3, unlike all their other products which use a
proprietary management scheme.  Also HTTP, although no mention of its
purpose.

At least the FASTLANE mentioned above specifies FIREFLY -- the mere
rumor of which was our basis for naming Photuris [RFC2522].


> > > Hopefully, other folks are securing their PPP or ethernet packets?
But I don't see where you mention that Google is actually using
these to secure your fiber?