[c-nsp] PA-MC-E3 7200 Port Adapter

[Arunas Maisiejus]

 > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 22:28, Jon Lewis wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Mark Tinka wrote:
> > > Searching 'cisco.com' brought me to the PA-MC-E3. Can
> > > this PA do what I need? I suppose the backbone
> > > provider would need to be able to present an E3 to my
> > > main PoP, but carry that and demux it as an E1 and
> > > nx64Kbps at each of the other sites and customers, or
> > > mux multiple site E1's into an E3 at the main PoP.
> >
> > Even if your telco/backbone provider can't/won't
> > provide you with a channelized E3 to plug into the
> > PA-MC-E3, you can probably do that yourself.  Being in
> > the US, we have T3 rather than E3, and we use lots of
> > PA-MC-T3 cards, sometimes doing the T1-T3 muxing
> > ourself using M13 muxes. You could do the same using an
> > E1/E3 mux.
> >
> > In some cases it might be cheaper to buy the mux and
> > make the E3 yourself rather than pay the telco for E3
> > handoff.
> 
> This sounds like a good idea. From where I'm standing, 
> telco might have issues co-locating a mux in their 
> facility for E3.
> 
> What I can see happenning more quickly is having the mux 
> at our PoP, and getting the telco to provision E1 
> circuits (up to 16) into the mux, then breaking out as an 
> E3 into the PA-MC-E3 port adapter and do the nx64Kbps in 
> there. Does this sound like it can work?
> 
Yes it will work. We we do muxing (with SDH node)  PA-MC-8E1 to PA-MC-STM-1SMI.

Arunas

> Cheers,
> 
> Mark.
> 

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