Security over SONET/SDH

Sun Jun 23 14:57:47 UTC 2013

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:47 AM, William Allen Simpson
> <william.allen.simpson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/23/13 12:48 AM, Scott Weeks wrote:
>>>
>>> By security protocol do you mean encrypting the traffic?
>>> Like what a Fastlane does?
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.

>> Hopefully, other folks are securing their PPP or ethernet packets?
>>
>>