Bandwidth Control Question

Sat Dec 20 14:55:31 UTC 2003

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, ken emery wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Roy wrote:
> 
> > Media converters are much cheaper than specialized FX cards like these.  A
> > 10Mbps converters are just $99 each and 100Mbps is $150.
> 
> Yes, but you need external power for these and they aren't
> monitorable/configurable from any interface.  Thus if one goes down and you
> can't physically see it you have no idea where the problem is until someone
> gets onsite.

This is true of any physical fault, if your cable stops working you still have 
to go and physically take a look...

Steve

> 
> bye,
> ken emery
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Stephen Sprunk
> > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:13 AM
> > To: Claydon, Tom
> > Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes
> > Subject: Re: Bandwidth Control Question
> >
> >
> >
> > Thus spake "Claydon, Tom" <Tom.Claydon at DobsonTelco.net>
> > > Yep. There's plenty of fiber between the two buildings, so we may go that
> > > route. Anyone know if there's any easy way to limit bandwidth on the
> > > PA-POS-OC3 adapters?
> >
> > PA-POS-OC3MM    $6000/card    $38.71/Mbit
> > PA-FE-FX    $3200/card    $32.00/Mbit
> > PA-2FE-FX    $5000/card    $25.00/Mbit
> >
> > Why muck with SONET unless necessary?
> >
> > > Sounds like another job for rate limiting to me...
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > !
> > policy-map 6Mb-customer
> >  class class-default
> >   police 6144
> > !
> > interface foo
> >  service-policy input 6Mb-customer
> >  service-policy output 6Mb-customer
> > !
> >
> > S
> >
> > Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
> > CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
> > K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
> >
> 
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