The cost of the GE modules that are capable of doing this are much lower than oc48 type interfaces for a router. If someone is building a cheap network (see rfc1925) it may not be their first choice to do so but what is forced upon them. - jared On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:19:21AM -0800, Jon Mansey wrote:
Sorry if this is a naive question, but why would you want to do layer 2 over WAN distances anyways? Whats wrong with good old SONET, IP and routing? Do you have non-IP protocols to haul?
jm
On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 09:02 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Greg Pendergrass wrote:
Absolutely right, I don't care what's in between as long as I have GigE at the end. Other options include using wave (too expensive), or ethernet over MPLS (worth considering although latency may be too high for longer that 1000 miles).
Why would latency be too high? Just talk to one of the carriers who do everything over MPLS, I'm sure they're more then interested in selling some kind of "VPN services" (well someone in the company is at any rate, most sales people would be flatly stumped and are more concerned with trying to keep their jobs than finding you cheap longhaul anyways).
You might want to try isp-bandwidth, it's a list more suited for finding specific services you can buy and specific sales weenies who will try and sell it to you. I know I've seen the GigE long-haul transport subject come up a couple time there...
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