On 17/Jul/20 17:06, Tom Hill wrote:
The differentiation is: consumer vs. service provider.
If you're a service provider, don't buy a consumer product and hope to sell it on at a similar (or higher) SLA rate to other consumers; that way lies ruin.
I don't know of "Consumers" that buy l2vpn's. Most consumers usually go for ADSL, FTTH or 4G... all carrying IP :-). We have several customers that buy EoMPLS circuits from us both within and outside of countries, and between continents. The reasons vary, but safe to say they've been happy. Of course, should the requirements get to 10Gbps or more, moving them over to DWDM makes plenty of commercial sense. In my experience, trying to provide EoMPLS transport to customers in the 6Gbps region and above, when your backbone consists mostly of N x 10Gbps links, is just asking for it. I'd recommend considering doing that only if one had N x 100Gbps everywhere, including router-switch 802.1Q trunks. Mark.