On Friday 25 September 2009 02:10:06 am CJ wrote: > Finally, if I solved this issue, I'm wondering about the > relative wisdom of using the FlexWAN card. I want to put > a PA-2DS3 in it and also a PA-MC-T3. Is this an > enlightened practice?
We've always been against trying to turn an Ethernet box into a TDM/SONET/SDH device, as it's never cheap considering how much bandwidth you're losing per slot relative to the investment in adding non-Ethernet support as well as the kind of bandwidth you'd be getting out of it. It's the same thing Juniper did with their MX-FPC carrier cards, adding support for SONET/SDH PIC's in the MX-series routers. I'd still find it cheaper to buy a smaller box that talks Ethernet and non-Ethernet fairly equally from an overall cost/benefit-perspective. But that's just us :-)... I'm sure a number of networks in the wild find this feature quite useful, which is why the vendors continue to find ways to provide support for it. Cheers, Mark.
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