[c-nsp] PA-MC-8T1

[Aaron]

It can do what you want. T1 or DS0s.

Aaron

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 21:11, Graham Wooden <graham at g-rock.net> wrote:

> Gert, good thinking. I keep forgetting about the c7200 platform.
> There are some good deals on ones with the NPE200s in them. Heck, cheap
> enough to have a spare ...
>
> Thanks again and take care,
>
> -graham
>
>
> On 11/26/09 12:08 PM, "Gert Doering" <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:09:12PM -0600, Graham Wooden wrote:
> >> Just wanted to confirm before I spend the money ....
> >>
> >> I am looking at the WAN card PA-MC-8T1 for some T1 aggregation points,
> >> inserted into FlexWAN/6500.  As I am reading the data sheet for it, it
> looks
> >> like it can do non-channelized connections, right?  Need to consolidate
> down
> >> some non-fractional/channelized T1s...
> >
> > I have no experience with the PA-MC-8T1, but we use a lot of MC-8E1s in
> > our network.  It can do "full rate" E1s (1984 time slots) and of course
> > sub-rate.  The total number of interfaces is limited to a number that I
> > forgot, so you can't do 8 x 30 DS0 interfaces - what we did at the time
> > was to run 6x full rate and 2x channelized E1s on them.
> >
> > Now for the FlexWAN: seriously reconsider whether you want to go there,
> > or whether you want to get a used 7200 instead and just put it on top
> > of the 6500, giving you 4 or 6 PA slots for the price of a single FlexWAN
> > with two slots.  The problem with the FlexWAN is not that it wouldn't
> work,
> > but that Cisco has a nasty habit of discontinueing support for 6500
> blades
> > that are less-than-mainstream in new IOS trains - FlexWAN is already
> > unsupported in most recent IOS versions (SXH, I think, dropped FW
> support)
> > and you would need to use "enhanced FlexWAN".
> >
> > (I certainly can understand that old hardware needs to die at some point,
> > but if all you have is a 6500, and you need SXH/SXI to support one half
> > of your hardware, and 'no more recent than SXF' to support the *other*
> > half, you're sort of stuck in "I hate Cisco" land.  If you have multiple
> > baskets, it's much easier to balance IOS reality vs. real world needs)
> >
> > ((I also think the FlexWAN was a very nice idea.  Fortunately enough,
> > for the longest time it was just too expensive to be more interesting
> > than "just get another 7200" - and when we saw that it was already being
> > dropped, we congratulated ourselves for not having fallen into every
> single
> > 6500 BU trap))
> >
> > gert
>
>
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