On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 12:22 -0700, Mike wrote: > Mikrotik is great at lower end stuff where you have ethernet interfaces. > Real POS OC-3 however, ain't in it's repertory and would not be what I > would choose to route at those interfaces/speeds. While I agree that Mikrotik and OC-3 don't go together, I don't know why you would suppose that it can't route at that speed. It's a Linux kernel and given the right hardware, can easily handle that much speed. > However, if you must > 'connect mikrotik to oc-3', you might as well find yourself a cisco > router of some kind with a PA-POS-OC3 card and use it as a simple modem. Or ImageStream for about 1/2 (or better) of the price. > Of course, for the price, you might as well just let the cisco do what > you're planning on doing with the Mikrotik and get orders of magnitude > of functionality and stability out of it in the process. More functionality from a Cisco? You MUST be joking. MT (and ImageStream for that matter) can do WAY more than Cisco for a fraction of the price. Both will offer a much better firewall option, infinitely better QOS capability and is easily as good with dynamic routing (BGP, OSPF, etc.). What's more, you can have a spare on the shelf and STILL not spend as much money as you would for a Cisco device. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * ********************************************************************