From: Chris (clarson52@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 23:35:46 GMT-3
As a side note to my previous post on this topic. I do not know why Cisco is
not marketing their METRO line to medium and large enterprises just as much
as they do the carriers. The potential for savings in the enterprise by
consolidating links and services is great and will pay for the equipment and
still save. A Cisco ONS box with 1:1 OC-12 protected cards, 1:1 protected
OC-3, 6 port DS-3 and 14 T-1 ports card with the XTC and all the
monitoring cards is less then a 6500 with dual supes.
You can also run ethernet over sonet and or do RPR. This to can save money
and you can extend Vlan info accross the WAN. This can have many benefits,
one of them is to build clusters where the primary is at one site and the
secondary at a failover site (of course you need data replication). This is
only one of many uses and possibilities.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Heywood" <hheywood@hotmail.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:50 PM
Subject: OT: BGP - Peering
> Hi guys/girls. Just a quick question to those of you who have purchased
> high speed Internet services, or who have an opinion on the purchase of
> these services. If you are buying a high speed Intenet service (let's say
> OC3 for example) how important is it for you to know about the carrier's
> infrastructure? Specifically, do you care who they peer with and who they
> use for transit? If you asked a carrier for this information and they
> declined to give it to you, would it have a significant impact on your
> decision whether to do business with the carrier? Comments or a ranking
> out of 10 would be appreciated. 10 Being more important. Thanks Howard
> Heywood Note to admin: Not my "registered" email account. Sorry if this
> causes headaches.
>
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