On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:36:22AM -0500, Greg Pendergrass wrote:
I'm looking at long-haul gigabit ethernet as a possible solution versus traditional SONET and I'm a little bit wary as promises made on web pages and white papers aren't *always* completely accurate. I'd appreciate it if you all would share your experiences with it. By long-haul I mean in the hundreds or thousands of miles. I need to know:
a. Does it work properly?
b. Who offers it in the continental US?
I'm going to take a stab and assume that you're actually more interested in finding a longhaul line with GigE on the ends, and not so much how many miles you can get with whatever optics... Rumor has it AT&T was offering a long-haul gige service, though I havn't actually seen it with my own eyes. I'm certain others are as well, though it takes a while to overcome the well-engranded traditions and beliefs about "LAN vs WAN technology" and all that nonsense... Short of that, Cogent offers a layer 3 transport service with gige on both ends as an option... :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)