Ethernet over DS3 Converters
Mikael Abrahamsson
swmike at swm.pp.se
Tue Nov 24 06:35:50 UTC 2009
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Bryan King wrote:
> You can use them as a simple Ethernet bridge if that is all you need/want,
> but they also will handle VLAN tagging, tag-in-tag, VLAN switching,
> rate-limiting, CoS, etc. Some people don't like them because there is no CLI
> for management only a web-based GUI and SNMP.
I used some RAD T3-FE media converters from 8 years back or so. They had
really small buffers (just a few ms) so if power usage is not a problem,
I'd definitely recommend a used 7200 (non-vxr) with NPE-225 and IO-FE and
a PA-T3. It probably uses 10x more power than the T3-FE converter, but it
does a much better job of getting the traffic thru in a nice friendly
manner (fair-queue is really nice).
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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