On 25/Aug/16 11:10, Randy Bush wrote:
how does this work for mpls vpn based services across continent/country? i.e. are there inter-provider mpls vpn issues?
Interestingly, being a relatively young player in the MPLS space, we see Africa slowly moving away from typical l3vpn services as more countries/cities/metros get fibre, as a result of businesses moving their IT infrastructure into some kind of cloud. It's not happening quickly, but it is happening, and I think what the SD-WAN (yet another buzz word) boys are doing will only accelerate the process. That has meant that the only progressive inter-provider MPLS NNI's we are seeing in/for the region are l2vpn's, and despite all the promises of BGP-driven l2vpn NNI's, I'd say all the l2vpn NNI's we are setting up are simple back-to-back VLAN's. Can't possibly mess those up :-). Mark.