Anyone using?

Fri Oct 29 15:26:59 UTC 1999

You cannot terminate OC-48 directly into the Versalar 15k. Its OC-12 and OC-12c.
I'm not finding my notes as to whether there is an Oc-12 card on the access side.
I recall an OC-3 access card (note, I refer to channelized not concatenated).
Certainly DS-3. 
I have been told that it has been tested with 256 BGP peers in a mix of internal and external.

V15k was built for the edge of the network, but has been used for core by some because
there isn't anything bigger from Nortel until V25k release. V25k will eventually take OC-48
ATM. I believe it starts with WDM.

If you do not find the answers you need, I can point you at someone inside Nortel
Networks who has the answers and probably customer references.

Dana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Timothy Brown <tim at e-connectsolutions.com>
To: Chris Flores <cflores at ixc-comm.com>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 4:23 AM
Subject: RE: Anyone using? 

> 
> > Simon,
> >
> > You missed the question. Timothy is interested in finding companies who have
> > deployed the latest generation of edge devices. These devices specialize in
> > QoS, VPNs and more intelligent(CPU intensive) features. A GSR is not in the
> > same classification since this router is meant for the core. Vendors
> > competing in the edge space are Shasta, Ennovate, Cosine and Unisphere to
> > name a few.
> >
> > CF
> 
> Hi, just piping up for myself a little bit.
> 
> Yes, Chris is correct.  I am interested in the VSR 15K as a non-core device
> (e.g., distribution) for regional hub(s).  There is no particular reason I
> could not use a Cisco GSR.  Perhaps it is best to make it clear what I am
> looking for.
> 
> I want a chassis-based solution able to provide regional connectivity to a
> number of access-level routers.  There is a need to provide incredible density
> (well, incredible for me, but I don't run a big network) over disparate access
> technologies (frame, E-1/T-1, ATM).  I don't have a very solid understanding of
> many optical technologies just yet, but I am under the impression I can lay my
> own dark fiber and put some sort of box on either end, not necessarily a VSR
> 15K, and run data across it without any telco intervention.  Cisco has a line
> card (apparently for the GSR) which supposedly does this, their OC-48/STM-16
> bidirectional regenerator.  Requirements for the chassis-based solution are the
> ability of the company providing it to encrypt the data passing over the line
> (including such things as routing updates, etc).  I know this sounds weird, and
> I may not be explaining it all properly.  The box has to rock-solid - you can
> assume I will be placing it somewhere where I can't go and fix it every time it
> breaks.  In the past, I have understood that Cisco's reliability record on
> devices doing "weird things" has been better than Nortel's.
> 
> So, the questions are:
> 
> - Does it break under real production loads?
> - Is Nortel's engineering team the type to do custom solutions?
>   (e.g., I provide encryption, they integrate it into their code?)
> - Can it terminate(?) dark fiber?
> - Does it speak everything it has to?  What about non-IP traffic?
> - Is the GSR a better solution?
> - Is there any other box that can terminate a ghastly amount of
>     frame, T-1/E-1, DS-3, and OC-48+ circuits?
> 
> Regards,
> Timothy
> 
> 
> 