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Re: Any good Wave Boxes to do this?


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:55:42 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:

Basically, we are trying to aggregate GEs onto the smallest number of 
OC48s to reduce the number of CWDM waves we burn. Basically, we'd rather 
  be able to put 10GEs onto 4 OC48s instead of 5.

You wont be able to fint 10 GEs into an OC192, you'll only fit 9 and you 
have to decode the 8b10 coding of the GE, and all this only to save 11% of 
BW.

I suspect this is the reason we see 2GE <->OC48, it's much easier and 
cheaper than anything else.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


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