Table 5: Comparison Of Ethernet Tie Solutions Involving Ether-1000 Units - GE JungleMUX SONET Technical Practice

Possible drop
Yes. This requires two
at tie site
ETHER-1000 (or two
ETHER-100) units at tie
site). In dual homing
applications, only one unit at
the tie site may be sufficient.
No, as long as the
2 kHz tie
collocated nodes are running
required
at the same reference
frequency.
No
Protection
switching
independent in
each physical
JungleMUX
ring
Switching time Longer
for traffic
bridged within
the same
physical ring
Latencies for Longer in the case of ring
failure
traffic bridged
within the same
physical ring

Table 5: Comparison of Ethernet Tie Solutions Involving ETHER-1000 Units

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Yes
(When tying to
ETHER-100 unit, a
multi-port ETHER-
100 paddleboard
must be used at the
tie site.)
No
Yes
Not affected
Not affected
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Yes Yes
No No
Yes Yes
Not affected Not affected
Not affected Not affected