long distance gigabit ethernet

Sun Mar 24 07:13:20 UTC 2002

* I'm looking at long-haul gigabit ethernet as a possible solution versus
> traditional SONET and I'm a little bit wary as promises made on web pages
> and white papers aren't *always* completely accurate.  I'd appreciate it
if
> you all would share your experiences with it. By long-haul I mean in the
> hundreds or thousands of miles. I need to know:

Part of the MRV group you can find Optical Access and Charlotte's Web
Networks solutions.
We installed the solution for few Giga to OC48 in several places as backhaul
connectivity and it works just find.
It includes VLANS and MPLS on top of few Giga, OC48

Best Regard
Chen Genossar
VP Business Development
phone: 972-4-9936290
fax: 972-4-9892743
mobile: 972-54-936290
cgenossar at opticalaccess.com
www.OpticalAccess.com
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  Optical Access part of the MRV group
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of Greg
Pendergrass
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 6:54 PM
To: Richard A Steenbergen
Cc: 'Nanog at Merit. Edu'
Subject: RE: long distance gigabit ethernet

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:ras at e-gerbil.net]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:47 AM
To: Greg Pendergrass
Cc: 'Nanog at Merit. Edu'
Subject: Re: long distance gigabit ethernet

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:36:22AM -0500, Greg Pendergrass wrote:
>
> I'm looking at long-haul gigabit ethernet as a possible solution versus
> traditional SONET and I'm a little bit wary as promises made on web pages
> and white papers aren't *always* completely accurate.  I'd appreciate it
if
> you all would share your experiences with it. By long-haul I mean in the
> hundreds or thousands of miles. I need to know:
>
> a. Does it work properly?
>
> b. Who offers it in the continental US?

I'm going to take a stab and assume that you're actually more interested
in finding a longhaul line with GigE on the ends, and not so much how many
miles you can get with whatever optics...

Absolutely right, I don't care what's in between as long as I have GigE at
the end. Other options include using wave (too expensive), or ethernet over
MPLS (worth considering although latency may be too high for longer that
1000 miles).

GP