STS1 / OC-1 circuit bandwidth
I'm having latency/congestion problems with my Level 3 circuit where I have a 200 MB CIR. Level 3 says we were going above our CIR even though my interfaces usually showed somewhere near 120 Mbps outbound (to Level 3). I asked the question of whether my 200 MB was 200 MB up and 200 MB down or whether it was 200 MB total. They said it was 200 MB up and 200 MB down. ok - great.
But when I brought up the option to upgrade my service they mentioned that they are only provisioned at my location with four STS1 circuits and that it would take time to expand their services there. Now, from what I can tell four STS1's have a BW of 51.84 Mbps each. And that is total - not 51 MB up and 51 MB down.
Can anyone tell me if I'm wrong here? If I have a T1 for a circuit, then I am getting 1.54 MB total. Are STS1 circuits somehow different?
Thanks
-mike
But when I brought up the option to upgrade my service they mentioned that they are only provisioned at my location with four STS1 circuits and that it would take time to expand their services there. Now, from what I can tell four STS1's have a BW of 51.84 Mbps each. And that is total - not 51 MB up and 51 MB down.
Can anyone tell me if I'm wrong here? If I have a T1 for a circuit, then I am getting 1.54 MB total. Are STS1 circuits somehow different?
Thanks
-mike
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
I was under the impression that if send and receive are kept separate, for example, using a send fiber pair and a receive fiber pair like with most OC-X implementations, you can get the "full duplex" effect that provides the doubled throughput. However, with some installations of the TDM clocking used in converting to the STS1 copper link, the throughput is limited to the line rate rather than maintaining the full capacity for send and receive simulataneously. It may help to know the termination hardware. Furthermore, many carriers use rate limiting techniques (so they can sell you more bandwidth). And as mentioned - how Level 3 treats the bandwidth once it hits their side of the interface is critical as well.
Hi,
Technically correct, but the carrier is going to sell the circuit as full duplex with two strands. I do believe an end to end description is required, but safe to say that if the CIR is 200Mbit/s that you should come close to that. SNMP data on the CER interface and stress testing is required.
I suspect the handoff is an STS-1 multiplexer to coax or similar. Customer equipment or configuration policies may also affect the throughput.
Technically correct, but the carrier is going to sell the circuit as full duplex with two strands. I do believe an end to end description is required, but safe to say that if the CIR is 200Mbit/s that you should come close to that. SNMP data on the CER interface and stress testing is required.
I suspect the handoff is an STS-1 multiplexer to coax or similar. Customer equipment or configuration policies may also affect the throughput.
Do they use a different measurement timeslice or method that would account for the differences in throughput statistics? Average over 5 mins versus peak load, for example?