Mikrotik & OC-3 Connection
Butch Evans
nanog at butchevans.com
Sat Jul 3 21:07:10 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 12:22 -0700, Mike wrote:
> 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.
While I agree that Mikrotik and OC-3 don't go together, I don't
know why
you would suppose that it can't route at that speed. It's a
Linux
kernel and given the right hardware, can easily handle that much
speed.
> 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.
Or ImageStream for about 1/2 (or better) of the price.
> 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.
More functionality from a Cisco? You MUST be joking. MT (and
ImageStream for that matter) can do WAY more than Cisco for a
fraction
of the price. Both will offer a much better firewall option,
infinitely
better QOS capability and is easily as good with dynamic routing
(BGP,
OSPF, etc.). What's more, you can have a spare on the shelf and
STILL
not spend as much money as you would for a Cisco device.
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