On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Roy wrote: > > Media converters are much cheaper than specialized FX cards like these. A > 10Mbps converters are just $99 each and 100Mbps is $150.
Yes, but you need external power for these and they aren't monitorable/configurable from any interface. Thus if one goes down and you can't physically see it you have no idea where the problem is until someone gets onsite. bye, ken emery > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Stephen Sprunk > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:13 AM > To: Claydon, Tom > Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes > Subject: Re: Bandwidth Control Question > > > > Thus spake "Claydon, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yep. There's plenty of fiber between the two buildings, so we may go that > > route. Anyone know if there's any easy way to limit bandwidth on the > > PA-POS-OC3 adapters? > > PA-POS-OC3MM $6000/card $38.71/Mbit > PA-FE-FX $3200/card $32.00/Mbit > PA-2FE-FX $5000/card $25.00/Mbit > > Why muck with SONET unless necessary? > > > Sounds like another job for rate limiting to me... > > Yes. > > ! > policy-map 6Mb-customer > class class-default > police 6144 > ! > interface foo > service-policy input 6Mb-customer > service-policy output 6Mb-customer > ! > > S > > Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein > CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the > K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking >