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

[Phil Bedard]

Ciena has their CN2300 which may also be an option.  I like the Marconi
OME since it's only a 1RU chassis.

ADVA Optical has a 1RU box as well, that has 10 downstream ports and  
OC12/OC48 upstream.
http://www.advaoptical.com/default.aspx?id=170

Phil

On Mar 6, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Colin Whittaker wrote:

> 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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