Hello Slugers, We have to setup a connection to the megalink service for a customer from a linux box. Telstra does not have a lot of information about what you gonna have when you take the service, so maybe someone of you knows more than them about it.
Here is what i understand from this service: - It is based on E1 type of link and you receive the appropriate number of slots depending on the bandiwth you required. - Now the point is to know how Telstra terminate the network at the customer premise, which will change the type of interface we have to support: will it be an E1 connection (then which type of connector: RJ48 or dual BNC type of connector (120 or 75 ohm), what about the CSU/DSU ?), or will they give a box which transform the E1 framing to a classical WAN serial connection (V35 type of connection) ? This latest configuratio is the one we have for our own framerelay connection, but nobody here is sure if this was included by telstra or if we had to finance the box. - We need to get internet access trough this megalink, to the associated Telstra servie. What is the used L2 encpas to make the link ? Is it HDLC (if yes, Cisco HDLC or not), or framerelay ? - Last point, for my own curiosity, does someone know what type of WAN does Telstra use for thos services ? Is it a quite legacy E3/E1 etc.. architecture, or do they use SDH/Sonet or maybe MPLS/IP or MPLS/ATM based one ? Thanks guys, JeF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
