Re: anyone running GPS clocks in Southeastern Georgia?

2011-01-21 Thread James Brown
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Robert E. Seastrom  wrote:


> Sure, and there are GPS-steered Rb clocks in telco-land too as well as
> a ton of stuff I don't know about yet until everyone else here chimes
> in; it's just that NTP is highly visible to NANOGers.
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What about Modular DOCSIS 3.0 deployments with external timing sources
between the QAM and CMTS


Re: Switch with 24x SFP PVLAN QinQ Layer 2

2011-03-02 Thread James Brown
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Rubens Kuhl  wrote:

> > Requirements are basically just 24/48 SFP ports, PVLAN and selective
> QinQ.
> > Most devices that fit the requirements are Layer 3, which pushes the cost
> > per port too high.
>
> Cisco ME6524 has a model with 32 SFP ports (24 with 3:1
> oversubscription, 8 non-oversubscribed) and "IP Base" IOS which has
> very limited L3 features (RIP and EIGRP stub only), focused on Layer 2
> deployments.
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> Rubens
>
> The ME3600X might be more a more appropriate Cisco solution than the
ME6524. The ME3600X is one of the current metro MDU access CPE device of
choice.

2x10GE and 24xGE SFP or Copper versions with Metro Feature set.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10956/index.html

*In the spirit of full disclosure I am biased towards this vendor