Re: Broadband Router/Firewall

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

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, roylo wrote:

> > 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.
> Yes, you are right about that.
> It most cases the ISP will give you a T3 with a bandwidth cap on it. The
> ideal behind it
> was that, since it cost the same to layout the lines you might as well get a
> cap T3 then a T2.
> That way you don't have to layout another line when you need more bandwidth.
> {just {re|un}cap it instead)
> 
> One of the companies I used to work for had an OC12 layout for that reason
> and they were only using T3.

fractional lines are quite common here... fractional T1, fractional T3,
almost all ISPs provide that.  So, yeah, you could get T2 equivalent
bandwidth out of a fractional T3 :)

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>
> To: <tlug@example.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Broadband Router/Firewall
> 
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> > 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