[c-nsp] ONS 15454 and GigE

[Ian Dickinson]

If you're not tied to an ONS blade, how about a Cisco 10720,
with the 10720-SR-LC-POS and 10720-GE-SFP-SX blades?
Even though it looks scarily like a AS5300 mechanically :-)
it would allow you to fill up more of the 2.5Gbps reasonably well.

John Neiberger wrote:
> An interesting situation has arisen where we might be able to get a type
> of OC-48 for not much more than a point-to-point OC-3. Our provider
> already has an ONS 15454 on-site and they would want to hand off the
> OC-48 to us. We don't have the hardware to terminate an OC-48 but it
> does appear that the 15454 can hand off GigE to us. It looks to me like
> a card is available that, in effect, "bridges" the OC side to the GigE
> side. Is that true?
> 
> Regardless, is it overly complicated to take in an OC-48 on one side
> and hand that off via GigE on the customer side?
> 
> It should be apparent that I know nearly nothing about the ONS 15454,
> so be gentle. :-)

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Ian Dickinson
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PIPEX
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