Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection

Sat Jul 3 19:40:20 UTC 2010

On 7/3/10 12:22 PM, Mike wrote:
> Alan Bryant wrote:
>> I haven't seen much traffic on this list about Mikrotik or RouterOS,
>> but I thought it was worth a shot as a last ditch effort to get this
>> going.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a solution to connect a POS OC-3 to a router
>> running Mikrotik's RouterOS? I have searched google extensively with
>> varying phrases and nothing helpful comes out of it.
>>
>>   
> Mikrotik is great at lower end stuff where you have ethernet interfaces.
> Real POS OC-3 however, ain't in it's repertory and would not be what I
> would choose to route at those interfaces/speeds. However, if you must
> 'connect mikrotik to oc-3', you might as well find yourself a cisco
> router of some kind with a PA-POS-OC3 card and use it as a simple modem.
> Of course, for the price, you might as well just let the cisco do what
> you're planning on doing with the Mikrotik and get orders of magnitude
> of functionality and stability out of it in the process.
> 

That's what I was going to say. ;)

Once you reach SONET land you're no longer playing in the "everything is
Ethernet" playground that they specializes in. I would say that you've
outgrown your Mikrotik routers if you need SONET interfaces and it's
time to forklift into a Cisco or Juniper.

~Seth