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RE: Bandwidth Control Question

  • From: ken emery
  • Date: Fri Dec 19 14:18:57 2003

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Roy wrote:

>
> Media converters are much cheaper than specialized FX cards like these.  A
> 10Mbps converters are just $99 each and 100Mbps is $150.

Yes, but you need external power for these and they aren't
monitorable/configurable from any interface.  Thus if one goes down
and you can't physically see it you have no idea where the problem
is until someone gets onsite.

bye,
ken emery
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Stephen Sprunk
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:13 AM
> To: Claydon, Tom
> Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes
> Subject: Re: Bandwidth Control Question
>
>
>
> Thus spake "Claydon, Tom" <[email protected]>
> > Yep. There's plenty of fiber between the two buildings, so we may go that
> > route. Anyone know if there's any easy way to limit bandwidth on the
> > PA-POS-OC3 adapters?
>
> PA-POS-OC3MM    $6000/card    $38.71/Mbit
> PA-FE-FX    $3200/card    $32.00/Mbit
> PA-2FE-FX    $5000/card    $25.00/Mbit
>
> Why muck with SONET unless necessary?
>
> > Sounds like another job for rate limiting to me...
>
> Yes.
>
> !
> policy-map 6Mb-customer
>  class class-default
>   police 6144
> !
> interface foo
>  service-policy input 6Mb-customer
>  service-policy output 6Mb-customer
> !
>
> S
>
> Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
> CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
> K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
>