[c-nsp] Recommendations for a small/cheap 2*Gig-E to OC48 mux?

[Colin Whittaker]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:44:05PM -0500, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> 
> Does it have to be OC-48 (each GigE mapped into a STS-20) or can you  
> live with a 2.5 Ghz lambda?
> 
> If you can live with the lambda take a look at MRV  http:// 
> www.mrv.com/products/line/fd.php

We use the GE mux cards from this product line lots and bar one small
software bug which has been fixed they work perfectly. 
The actually protocol on the fibre is infiband.

Another option might be a traverseedge100 from turin
http://www.turinnetworks.com/html/products_traverseedge100.htm
2xge,6xfe and a bunch of ds1/e1 and ds3 with oc48 uplink

Colin

> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Chris Griffin wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> >
> > We are looking for a small box which will mux 2 Gig-E circuits into a
> > single OC48 for a point to point application.  SFP/GBIC on the Gig-E
> > side and SR or LR on the OC48 side.  DC and AC power options.  The
> > smaller/cheaper the better :-)  Looks like Cisco has an SDH box  
> > (15305),
> > but I wouldn't call it cheap.  Any other Cisco/Non-Cisco options that
> > people are happy with?
> >
> > Thanks!
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