We have an 4.5 mb MPLS connection from here to our alternate site and it has served us very well.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:21 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > We have three satellite offices in two states connected to our main office > via point to point T1s. Each office has their own dedicated Internet > connection. All data and email is centralized in our main office with each > satellite office having their own phone switch. We use VOIP for inter office > communication and voice mail. We do not do video conferencing yet but do > make use of VPN and remote desktop services for folks working remotely. I > have several vendors pushing me hard for changing all our circuits over to > MPLS. It seems that the price of doing this may be more than what everything > currently costs now. I have also looked into leaving the P2P Ts as they are > but switching most of our dedicated Internet connections to Comcast Business > cable. Doing this would multiply my Internet bandwidth by a factor of 6 but > cut my monthly costs at our main office by more than 75%. I've read up on > MPLS and it seems that the QOS is indeed better but it also sometimes has > packet loss issues. I'd appreciate any opinions on the switch to MPLS and > any hands on experience stories that you'd be willing to share. > > Thanks. > > Steve > > > > -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec --------------------------------------------- What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. — Joan Walsh Anglund ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
