Re: [nsp] GSR and E3 cards.

From: Kauto Huopio (huopio@eunet.fi)
Date: Mon Oct 18 1999 - 12:32:32 EDT


On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Niels Bakker wrote:

> Neil J. McRae wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if Cisco are going to do a E3 card for the GSR?
> > I note they have a DS-3 card now but no E3 version...
>
> Out of curiosity, why not use T3's instead? The trend among telcos is to
> charge the same for both since they have to reserve the same amount of
> bandwidth on their SDH networks. I'm not a Bellhead so I could be wrong
> about this, but I believe a T3 is easier for them to deliver than an E3
> because they need less hardware to convert stuff (STM1 and T3 are both
> VC4? I heard).

I'd love to use T3 everywhere, but there are issues like getting T3 radio
links on ETSI channel matrix.. any good suggestions?

--Kauto

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