On 9/26/10 8:26 AM, Andy Dills wrote: > On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Christopher J. Wargaski wrote: > >> Hey Jeff-- >> >> This year I installed a video WAN comprised of several 3845 routers >> with the NM-1T3/E3 for point to point DS3s (that is all, nothing >> else). The 3845 routers list at $13,000 and the network module at >> $8,500. You should do yourself and your firm a favor and look at >> business class Ethernet. DS3s are so expensive and sometimes a major >> pain in the butt. > > ...or you can buy a 7204 with a DS3 adapter on the secondary market for a > tenth of that cost. > > That said, ethernet is getting cheaper and more widely deployed. We were > very pleased to discover that Verizon was finally offering this service in > our LATA. NxT1 now upgrades to ethernet instead of frac DS3 for our > customers. >
I tried that route - took Verizon a year and a half to admit they couldn't get the long haul portion to work on a transit link over 100 meg Ethernet, which was basically an Overture with an OC-3. Ended up ordering traditional loops over the same mux from someone else no problem. Local PTP is fine though. Ethernet has a much greater degree of operational stupidity and problem solving ineptness over the classic stuff. Ultimately its only advantage is cost. ~Seth _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
