Actually I was moreso looking to see if any of the "major" carriers were doing it on the sly, ie, selling it as point-to-point TDM but instead it was CES Thanks, -- David Temkin On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:50:30PM -0400, Dave Temkin wrote:
Is anyone aware of any carriers that are using CES as a transport method as private line and aren't necessarily selling it as such? (ie, I've ordered a DS-3 from point A to point B, and instead of the carrier dropping it as standard TDM it's CES through their network...)
What you are speaking of is most likely what juniper calls CCC. L2 transport over their network. Not too dificult to set up but as usual the complications come in the realm of redundancy and network reconvergence.
I'd pay close attention to the SLA offered, but it is probally similar to what is seen in a TDM network if they employ mpls fast reroute .. and if you're doing IP over this circuit, you will probally be less likely to notice any problems.
- Jared