Top posting since it's so brief. http://www.radware.com -> they have all different manner of conversion technologies in their product set.
Mike -- Michael K. Smith - CISSP, GISP Chief Technical Officer - Adhost Internet LLC [email protected] w: +1 (206) 404-9500 f: +1 (206) 404-9050 PGP: B49A DDF5 8611 27F3 08B9 84BB E61E 38C0 (Key ID: 0x9A96777D) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:cisco-nsp- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Justin Shore > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:14 AM > To: 'Cisco-nsp' > Subject: [c-nsp] SP-grade Ethernet over TDM > > Does anyone have any suggestions for providing Ethernet links over > bonded T1s? > > We originally looked at Overture. They claimed that their product used > standard MLPPP and interoped well with 7200s. They sent out a tech to > help configure it in a lab. As it turns out they also require the use > of BCP (Bridging Control Protocol). To use BCP on a 7200 step #1 is to > disable IP routing (literally, 'no ip routing'). That is required to > facilitate bridging VLANs over MLPPP bundles. Needless to say this > wasn't an option since our router was doing more than just terminating > EoTDM connections. If we had an old 7200 sitting around we probably > could have pulled it off. Alternately, if we have a 7600 in that colo > with DS3 SPAs we could have done the same thing without disabling > routing. I'm considering replacing that 7200 with an ASR in the future > so perhaps this will become possible once again down the road, but not > today. > > I've also been looking at Adtran's Ethernet over TDM products. It > looks > like you have to use their Total Access 5000 at the hub and then use > their NetVanta 800 series as the CPE. I don't know anything about the > Total Access 5000 and can't access their documentation without an > account (hard to sell the product when you won't let people access the > docs beforehand). > > Overture's CPEs for this application are the 140 and 180 models. The > price is right but the product just doesn't have a production SP-grade > feel to it. Management has to be done locally. There isn't a CLI > option which I would think would be a requirement for SPs wanting to > either script changes or backup configurations. It just doesn't feel > production grade or SP-grade by any means. It's not like their 2200 or > 5000 products which are much better. I've always heard good things > about Adtran and that they are Cisco-like but I've never actually used > them. > > What I'd like to find is a device that can bond multiple DS1s together > with standards-based MLPPP and then bridge that to an Ethernet > interface > behind it. I imagine that this would interop with our 7200s nicely. > It > would be nice if there was some mechanism for in-line management as > well, though I'm not sure how that would work short of pulling out a > DS0 > for management access. Does anyone know of such a product? Does > anyone > know of any other ways of accomplishing that same or similar thing? I > don't know of any cisco products that can do this. I could foresee a > situation where I need multiple VLANs at the customer premise so the > Adtran solution would likely fit in better with this potential need. > > Thanks > Justin > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
