Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection

Sun Jul 4 17:23:54 UTC 2010

You can always use a Gig-E <-> OC3c/STM1 media converter.  I've used one
from RAD just to provide OC3c access speeds for some over Cisco 75xx
routers which don't support POS interfaces.  Works great.

Tim McKee

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 16:07 -0500, Butch Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 12:22 -0700, Mike wrote: 
>         > 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.
>         
>         While I agree that Mikrotik and OC-3 don't go together, I don't
>         know why
>         you would suppose that it can't route at that speed.  It's a
>         Linux
>         kernel and given the right hardware, can easily handle that much
>         speed.
>         
>         > 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. 
>         
>         Or ImageStream for about 1/2 (or better) of the price.
>         
>         > 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.
>         
>         More functionality from a Cisco?  You MUST be joking.  MT (and
>         ImageStream for that matter) can do WAY more than Cisco for a
>         fraction
>         of the price.  Both will offer a much better firewall option,
>         infinitely
>         better QOS capability and is easily as good with dynamic routing
>         (BGP,
>         OSPF, etc.).  What's more, you can have a spare on the shelf and
>         STILL
>         not spend as much money as you would for a Cisco device.  
>         
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