What is the most cost effective equipment to use to connect two locations with an OC-3c circuit? I currently have 7206VXR routers at both ends, so would prefer slot cards for those if feasible. Excuse my ignorance, but I can't get hold of any pre-sales support at Cisco because the worms are overloading their phone reps. -Steve -- Stephen Milton - Founder/VP Internet (425) 881-8769 x102 ISOMEDIA.COM - Premium Internet Services (425) 869-9437 Fax milton@isomedia.com http://www.isomedia.com
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Stephen Milton wrote:
What is the most cost effective equipment to use to connect two locations with an OC-3c circuit? I currently have 7206VXR routers at both ends, so would prefer slot cards for those if feasible.
There are PA-POS-OC3 cards (IIRC 3 flavors), and you need to shop for the right kind to match up with the way your telco provider is handing the circuit to you (multimode, single-mode intermediate reach and single-mode long reach). http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2033/prod_brochure09186a008... I recently needed some OC3 interfaces and went with older POSIP-OC3-50 cards (full size cards for the 7500 series) as they were much cheaper than PA-POS cards. They're basically specialized VIP2-50's with a double-wide POS adaptor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
PA-POS for OC3-c can be pretty expensive - $3000 or so. If you don't mind the cell tax the PA-A1-OC3 are only $500 or so but I'm not sure if they ever made a VXR model of this card. The PA-A3-OC3 are about $1000. The difference between the PA-A1 and PA-A3, besides the possible VXR/non VXR bus issue, is that the PA-A1s have less ability to handle queueing on a per VC basis - not an issue at all if you're just looking for cheap cards. I did a little searching after writing the above ... looks like the PA-A1-OC3 is a non VXR 600 mbit bus only card, while the PA-A3-OC3 was built for the 600 mbit standard and gigabit VXR bus boxes. Stephen Milton wrote:
What is the most cost effective equipment to use to connect two locations with an OC-3c circuit? I currently have 7206VXR routers at both ends, so would prefer slot cards for those if feasible.
Excuse my ignorance, but I can't get hold of any pre-sales support at Cisco because the worms are overloading their phone reps.
-Steve
-- Stephen Milton - Founder/VP Internet (425) 881-8769 x102 ISOMEDIA.COM - Premium Internet Services (425) 869-9437 Fax milton@isomedia.com http://www.isomedia.com
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