On 2/6/06, Rich Sena <ras@thick.net> wrote:
I'm trying to cut a few financial corners in our remote site budgets. I
*insert network crash noises here*
have sites that are homed back to the main campus offices via ATM and other leased lines. These sites also currently have dedicated Internet access. I was doing some brain cramming re: MPLS and possibly killing our dependence on ATM by going the MPLS route over a common provider. It struck me to venture a guess as to why I couldn't utilize the same connection for both - Internet transit via the common provider as well as an MPLS mesh between all my sites and my main campuses also via that same connection with the common provider...
Wouldn't this be something similar to frame relay? If I understand MPLS correctly, this should be a fairly simple implementation ...
If you feel this is OT then reply to me direct if there is other interest I will summarize...
I'm interested in responses to this ... MPLS is still a four letter word .. :)
-- Rich Sena - ras@thick.net
-- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold XenoPhage0@gmail.com