[AusNOG] ATM Router / Switch recommendations

[Mark Prior]

GigE is going to be a whole lot less pain in the long run. I would also 
take SDH over ATM (but I wouldn't use a 7304 for that either :-)

Mark.

On 2/08/12 11:59 AM, Jarrod Lucia wrote:
> They can hand off with GigE, but would mean a larger deployment base for us, remote PoP's etc. It may go that way :) , just exploring the ATM option in the first instance.
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> On 02/08/2012, at 12:17 PM, Mark Prior <mrp at mrp.net> wrote:
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>> On 2/08/12 9:26 AM, Jarrod Lucia wrote:
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>>> I have been a follower for a while but first time posting.
>>>
>>> I was after opinions for some ATM router / switch hardware. We have a need to connect to a supplier via ATM (STM-4 at this stage), and I was looking for some equipment to terminate this on.
>>>
>>> I have used the Cisco lightstream 1010 in the past, but I believe these are now EOL and long in the tooth.
>>>
>>> As this is the only ATM connections we are likely to have I don't particularly want to get a high end router just to hold a few ATM cards.
>>>
>>> So list is short and sweet:
>>>
>>> a.	STM-4 capacity, with ability to add additional STM-4 for redundancy.
>>> b.	Redundant hardware (power supply etc).
>>> c.	New or second hand (as long as the price is right)
>>>
>>> Any thoughts / and or recommendations would be appreciated.
>>
>> A supplier still using ATM, WOW :-) Are you sure that they couldn't do a hand off via SDH or GigE?
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>> Mark.
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