Located in NH in a major metropolitian area. Vendor availability isn't an issue unless the local carrier (Fairpoint) goes belly up.
Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mazzaccaro" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 10:04:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: MPLS I use PAETEC www.paetec.com for our 9 location (across 6 states) MPLS WAN network. Works very very well, we utilize QoS for VoIP, and have very little problems. PAETEC's account team, and customer service is impeccable. Our main location has a 1.5 MB MPLS connection to PAETEC. Our remote sites have either 512k - 768k - 1.5MB MPLS connections to PAETEC depending on their size. All the remote locations' traffic travels from their site, to PAETEC, then back to my location where all the resources are (servers, internet access) There are no resources at the remote locations, just PCs, printers, a switch, and a router. The run all their applications on our servers (through Citrix), and their phones connect to our PBX via VoIP. Heck, the domain controllers are even in our main location. Hope that helps. PS - Where are you located? This will determine what your options are. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MPLS 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
