[c-nsp] ATM over a Serial Interface question

[Michael Sokolov]

Nick Voth <nvoth at estreet.com> wrote:

> Often we bond several of them
> with IMA to get better capacity, but higher bandwidth links are unavailable.

Well, if these DS1/ATM connections can be bonded with IMA, that certainly
indicates they are true ATM, not FUNI/DXI, so "encapsulation atm-dxi"
won't help, sorry.  I don't know of any single piece of hardware that
can take a CT3, internally break it up into T1s and handle each T1 as an
ATM (not HDLC) interface.  But you should be able to use standard TDM
gear to pull T1s out of the CT3, and then find some gear that will do
DS1/ATM given a single physical T1 interface.

But wait a minute... the quoted sentence is in present tense.  Do you
already have a working setup?  Your original message seemed to indicate
that this was something you are *planning* to implement, and you were
wondering if your PA-MC-T3 can handle it, weren't you?

A bit confused,
MS