Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2010-02-14, at 12:41, Lorell Hathcock wrote: My problem on the redesign is I want to provide routed, copper gig-e ports at a reasonable price per port. Force10 S25N/S50N. http://www.force10networks.com/products/s50n.asp If you look

RE: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-17 Thread Leigh Porter
: Frank Bulk - iName.com [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Wed 2/17/2010 12:01 AM To: 'Lorell Hathcock'; 'North American Network Operators Group' Subject: RE: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports? Not sure if this meets your needs, but here's some ruggedized stuff: http

RE: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-16 Thread Graham Farrar
Some different router options Here are three, each w/ different levels of capability: Option #1 - CISCO3845 (3RU tall) 1x CISCO3845 2x MEM3800-512D 2x HWIC-1GE-SFP 1x GLC-SX-MM This will provide 4x GbE ports, which will fill the minimum need as described below. Option #2 - CISCO7204VXR (3RU

Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-02-14, at 12:41, Lorell Hathcock wrote: My problem on the redesign is I want to provide routed, copper gig-e ports at a reasonable price per port. Force10 S25N/S50N. http://www.force10networks.com/products/s50n.asp If you look for used models, make sure they're not so old that they

Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-14 Thread Shon Elliott
We use Cisco WS-3560G-24-PS-S (Catalyst 3560G's with POE Ports). Provides POE on each port too to eliminate having to use POE bricks to radios. We actually give each AP it's own group. It's better to break them all up rather than keep them in their own broadcast domain, because from subscriber to

Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-14 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 02:41:51PM -0600, Lorell Hathcock wrote: 1 - AP network (need suggestion for cost effective gig-e switch) 2 to 4 - back haul ports 1 - internet port (on one out of every 4 towers or so) (and most likely fiber instead of copper) Does anyone have any

Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-14 Thread Bret Clark
Chuck Anderson wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 02:41:51PM -0600, Lorell Hathcock wrote: 1 - AP network (need suggestion for cost effective gig-e switch) 2 to 4 - back haul ports 1 - internet port (on one out of every 4 towers or so) (and most likely fiber instead of copper) Does anyone

RE: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-14 Thread Eric Morin
I have found the MRV OS906 (6 port 10/100/1000/SFP + Eth OBM) to be a very cost effective and an extremely flexible device. It's a linux based device with a router shell but all forwarding is done in hardware (ASICs). It has a very flexible implementation of many L2 features (QnQ, inner or outer

Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-14 Thread Jason Lixfeld
The OS906 may be different than the OS912, but be warned that I had major issues with OS912 relating to LDP and OSPF. Constant crashes of both LDP and OSPF made the device totally unusable. We had to ship all 20 back to them. It was really messy. This was about 6 months ago, and their

RE: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

2010-02-14 Thread Eric Morin
Group Subject: Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports? The OS906 may be different than the OS912, but be warned that I had major issues with OS912 relating to LDP and OSPF. Constant crashes of both LDP and OSPF made the device totally unusable. We had to ship all 20 back