Frame Relay encap vis-a-vis point-to-point at UUNET

Tue Sep 22 04:39:49 UTC 1998

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 08:33:27PM -0400, Nathan Stratton wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Barry L James wrote:

> > Now, I guess my question is: am I getting sold the brooklyn bridge here?
> 
> Well no, but it does have some problems. A lot of the Cascades at UUNet
> are the old HSSI cards and have problems over 30 megs. 

Anybody done/doing this with Cisco/StrataCom BPX/etc?  One of our 
providers attempted this with us about a year ago, without success.
This was before CEF/CAR, and they wanted to perform rate limiting/
shaping on our T3 down to 10Mbit/Sec.  The idea was to use frame-to-ATM 
translation (terminology?) and then ATM QoS tweaks in the BPX, 
before shipping it to a 7513 via HSSI.  

Cisco wasn't able to make the specific FR card involved work 
then, however.  I don't remember the switch card P/N.

Is CAR inexpensive enough processor-wise that this and the CT-3 
card make the above obsolete/moot?

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