Re: Broadband Router/Firewall

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, roylo wrote:

> T1,2,3, etc.. =North America Standard
> E1,2,3, etc..  =European Standard
> 
> So T2 exist in US and it is 6312 kbps
> 
> And regarding to the speed for E1 and E2
> 2.048Mbps is E1 and E2 is 8.45Mbps
> So the 2mbps you are talking about is E1 not E2

ah, ok.  I don't think we have T2s in the USA though, even though the
standard is defined.  never seen an ISP offer that, anyway.

> 
> you can go to
> http://www.mouse.demon.nl/ckp/telco/t1.htm
> http://www.mouse.demon.nl/ckp/telco/e1.htm
> and learn more about it
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>
> To: <tlug@example.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Broadband Router/Firewall
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, roylo wrote:
> >
> > > > 2. Anyone has experience with Allied Telesis's AR320?  It seems to be
> the
> > > > most featureful but has only 10Mbps interfaces on both sides, so I am
> > > > worried about its throughput.
> > > >
> > > >
> http://www.allied-telesis.co.jp/products/product/brouter/ar320/index.html
> > > >
> > >
> > > don't worry, you will never excess 10Mbps on a dsl connection.
> > > {Just to give you an ideal; T2 is only 6312 kbps = 6.312 Mbps}
> > > {And I have not seem any ISP that offer more than 5Mbps on dsl
> connections}
> >
> > T2?  a European T2/E2 is only 2 megabits/sec, and I was led to believe
> > that they only exist in Europe.  Is this some special Japanese kind of T2
> > that you folks only have over there?  I've been around networking for
> > quite a while and I haven't ever run into a ~6mbit WAN circuit type
> > (unless you count 4 bonded T1s..)
> >
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Director of Information Technology, Director of Research and Development
ITIsOpen, Inc. - http://www.itisopen.com
Cisco Certified Network Associate, Sun Solaris Certified Systems Administrator