We found ciena a bit pricey
Gino A. Villarini President Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. www.aeronetpr.com @aeronetpr On 12/1/14, 12:19 PM, "Scott Vander Dussen via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: >Mark- >Why Ciena > Brocade? And generally speaking, when Ciena is referring to >G.8032 is that assumed it's the second revision? Their chalk talk video >is clearly referencing features unique to v2, but the documentation only >identifies simply "G.8032". > >Scott > >-----Original Message----- >From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh via Af >Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 05:52 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ERPS: G.8032 vs Brocade MRP vs ? > >We are evaluating vendors for this at the moment. Ciena is looking like >the winner at the moment, with G.8032 as the loop control topology. > >So far we have rejected Cisco, Juniper, Performant, Accedian, and Extreme >as vendors. > >To answer Forrest¹s question - yes, we do need faster recovery than we >can get from MSTP, OSPF, MPLS. While those protocols have worked well, >they don¹t have the recovery time we want. > >Other things we are looking for beyond quick recovery time: > >Carrier Ethernet Services (Metro Ethernet Forum) Ethernet OAM Performance >Monitoring (Y.1731) > >I want to be able to offer carrier type services (NNI, E-Line, E-LAN, >E-Tree, E-Access) to other companies over our wireless and fiber network. > If you want to sell services to cell companies they are requiring Y.1731 >(Performance Monitoring) at the handoff. > >We already have pieces of this in place over the wireless network using >Q-in-Q, but want to extend this further. We currently have one other ISP >set up selling services over our wireless network with transparent (to >the customer) Ethernet delivery back to the providers network. It¹s >pretty cool in that they can install customers anywhere on our Canopy >network and deliver the Ethernet traffic back to their network. We don¹t >care what VLAN, IP Addressing, DHCP, or Authentication scheme they are >using - it¹s just Ethernet. > >Mark > > > > >> On Dec 1, 2014, at 1:11 AM, Scott Vander Dussen via Af <[email protected]> >>wrote: >> >> Looking to add Ethernet ring protection switching into our network. >>I've attached a PDF demonstrating the topology of the test tower set. >>I'm leaning toward a G.8032v2 implementation simply because it's ITU >>standards based and not vendor specific. Other options include Brocade >>MRP, Moxa Turbo Chain, etc. Any shared wisdom would be greatly >>appreciate before we get ourselves pot committed. >> >> Scott >> > > > >
