On 01/24/2011 11:46 PM, Matt Yaklin wrote:
The people buying the TA5000 platform may be using it for example. They have the right cards to do it and the platform is pretty popular. We only used the gear for testing and light production use but I see the chassis in every major CO around here with a good mix of cards. They chain them together via gigE.
I have also used media convertors to carry TDM DS3s in larger buildings.
We still have a large TDM network though but keep thinking about TDM over IP quite often in the near future. Sticking a DS3 sfp in a switch and putting M13 muxes against it sounds pretty appealing to me when you have solid QoS to go with it.
I think about this, but then think 'Why would I use a technology that can't put 28 T1s in 45 megabit of bandwidth?' I get it for stuff like g.shdsl metro-e, but in building or on glass, might as well keep it TDM, and save the capex and tickets. I'm sure technology may mature down the road but for now I just don't see the payoff that it has, unlike VoIP does, where you actually save bandwidth doing it as VoIP