On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 02:50:04PM -0600, [email protected] wrote: > > > We have a customer that has to be connected to a MPLS network. > > Our dark fiber middle mile carrier has connectivity to the carrier that has > that MPLS network. . > > > > Can we simply route that to our DIA fiber ethernet connection? > > Will we need some kind of MPLS router?
You're unlikely to need to interact with MPLS. Generally, the carrier/customer connection is ethernet/IP. The carrier classifies the frame/packet as it enters the network, and adds an MPLS tag. Then the carrier routes based on MPLS tags. The tags are stripped before the frame/packet leaves the network. 99% of the time when someone says, 'we use MPLS' what they really mean is that their carrier uses MPLS to carry things around the carrier network. Your customer will likely want Ethernet transport over your network -- an L2 connection. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
