-----Original Message----- From: Endresen Even Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:41 AM Subject: Restrictions on Ethernet L2 circuits?
Hello,
Anyone with opinions on what restrictions a service provider should and should not impose on Ethernet L2 circuits provided to business customers wanting to connect several offices?
One thing I *really* miss from about a decade back is the Telseon model. It was completely self-managed. They would place a switch at the customer's location and if I wanted to change the bandwidth allocation on a port, it was as easy as logging in to a management portal and changing it. So if a port usually required only 10Meg but I needed to do something different for a few days, I could bump the bandwidth of the port up to 100Meg and then set it back down when I was done and I was billed based on what each day's bandwidth setting was. We paid only for what we had configured for each day. The other benefit of it was that if someone else also had the same service, we could self-provision a "logical wire" between us. So if I wanted to peer or somehow partner with another network that also had a Telseon switch, we simply logged in to the management portal and configured it, jacked in to the appropriate port on our respective switches, and it was done. It didn't even take a phone call, the provisioning process could be done on the web. I don't think anyone offers such a MAN service these days and I really wish it had stayed around.