Re: 10 G.Eth over Sonet DATS
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- Subject: Re: 10 G.Eth over Sonet DATS
- From: Roy Bynum <RBYNUM/0004245935@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:45:17 -0500 (EST)
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Bryan,
The SONET DATS system that I have removes the 802.3 framing from the
8/10B signalling and maps/encapsulates it directly to the concatenated
SONET STSs. The only thing that is maintained is the interframe gap.
Otherwise it is the same what originates from the data source. 10GbE
would work well as an encapsulated SONET transport, although I would
be concerned about the cost of that for LAN environments.
Thank you,
Roy Bynum
Date: Tue May 18, 1999 10:14 am CST
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Subject: 10 G.Eth over Sonet DATS
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Hi Roy,
Quick question... Does a G.Eth signal at 1.25 Gb/s efficiently fit
inside of a Sonet DATS frame? I'd guess that only one G.Eth signal
could be embedded in a single OC-48 signal (is this correct?). This
would seem to leave a large percentage of the frame unused.
QUESTION: What 10 G.Eth data rate (data plus overhead) would you
recommend for efficient loading into a Sonet OC-48 or OC-192 DATS
frame? Is it important to be able to load both OC-192 and OC-48, or
should we focus on just OC-192?
Regards,
Bryan Gregory
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Bill,
Internet IP will continue to be what the market requirements reflect.
Slow restoration times are acceptable in that environment. The UUNet
Long Haul GbE is part of what I am doing. I am the one that put the
Long Haul Optical switching/Metro DWDM/SONET DATS evaluation of GbE
together.
As a bit irony, dependable GbE is turning out to be less expensive
than undependable IP over TDM, ATM, or POS. Unless MPLS comes in a
respectable price break, GbE over Native Data SONET DATS will still be
less expensive.
In addition to being less expensive, GbE over Native Data SONET DATS
will provide "subscription control" though "flow control" That
"subscription control" will prevent over-subscribing the WAN links,
which is a big problem for enterprise data network designers and
architects. Combine that with "priority queueing" and most of what
MPLS was supposed to do has already been accomplished by GbE. You
guys as IEEE have done a greater job than you knew.
Dependable, high quality transport of Native data traffic such as GbE
and 10GbE is probably going to be a different market, one that "best
effort" is unacceptable to. If there is a market that provides the
profit margin that will sustain 10GbE, it will not be the Internet as
it is today.
I do know that I have been given the requiement that carriers can not
support a data service over long haul systems that does not provide
"SONET like" functionality. The reason that I joined this study group
is to provide that insight to the standards developers. If that is GbE
or 10GbE over SONET then the issue is already resolved. All that
remains is to determine what the LAN application requirements are,
then the standard can be defined.
Date: Mon May 17, 1999 3:23 pm CST
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Roy:
Again no disagreement. I don't think traditional SONET or ATM
networks will
disappear. The model we advocate is the same that Frontier is now
deploying:
IP/DWDM for best efforts, slow restoral traffic on one set of
wavelengths,
IP over SONET on another set of wavelengths for those services that
need
fast restoral and security of SONET, and IP over ATM over SONET on
another
set of wavelengths for fine grained QoS services.
I agree with you that the driving force for GbE is cost. It makes a
dramatic difference to the overall cost of the network.
But I believe GbE can also make an equal dramatic difference on the
transport side on medium, long haul links up to 1000 km. Your sister
company UUNet has already demonstrated that on some long haul GbE
systems.
But I agree with you this type of link is probably only good for best
efforts IP traffic.
Bill
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Bill St Arnaud
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