On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Streiner, Justin wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Sonya Blake wrote: > > > What kind of OC12 CPE devices (routers) are people using out there? > > Initially for Internet connectivity, but probably would need to do advance > > features, i.e. BGP, etc. > > Are you referring to an OC12c that you're using as a single 622 Mb/s pipe, > or an OC12 that you're bringing into a SONET add/drop mux and breaking out > STS-1 slots for DS3s or OC3/OC3c slots? > > If you're talking about an OC12c, your choices would probably be: > Cisco 7600 > Cisco 10000 > Cisco 12xxx > Juniper M-series - I think even an M5 could do an OC12c, though I'm not > sure.
Yes, a M5 has 4 slots each capable of OC12, GigE or lower speed interfaces. > Other offerings by Riverstone, Avici and others that I'm not as familiar > with. > > You can put an OC12c into a Cisco 7200/7500 *in theory* using an OC12c DPT > card, but the router will likely crap out long before you come close to > saturating the pipe. Amen /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.