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Re: Any good Wave Boxes to do this?

  • From: Mikael Abrahamsson
  • Date: Fri Apr 09 04:58:01 2004 
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.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [email protected]