It's nice to see WISPs growing up. It would be nice if Mikrotik added a more modern feature set, but they seem to be busy elsewhere. Their MPLS feature set hasn't changed much in years. Nothing new in this arena for years.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Radabaugh via Af" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 7:52:13 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ERPS: G.8032 vs Brocade MRP vs ? We are evaluating vendors for this at the moment. Ciena is looking like the winner at the moment, with G.8032 as the loop control topology. So far we have rejected Cisco, Juniper, Performant, Accedian, and Extreme as vendors. To answer Forrest’s question - yes, we do need faster recovery than we can get from MSTP, OSPF, MPLS. While those protocols have worked well, they don’t have the recovery time we want. Other things we are looking for beyond quick recovery time: Carrier Ethernet Services (Metro Ethernet Forum) Ethernet OAM Performance Monitoring (Y.1731) I want to be able to offer carrier type services (NNI, E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, E-Access) to other companies over our wireless and fiber network. If you want to sell services to cell companies they are requiring Y.1731 (Performance Monitoring) at the handoff. We already have pieces of this in place over the wireless network using Q-in-Q, but want to extend this further. We currently have one other ISP set up selling services over our wireless network with transparent (to the customer) Ethernet delivery back to the providers network. It’s pretty cool in that they can install customers anywhere on our Canopy network and deliver the Ethernet traffic back to their network. We don’t care what VLAN, IP Addressing, DHCP, or Authentication scheme they are using - it’s just Ethernet. Mark > On Dec 1, 2014, at 1:11 AM, Scott Vander Dussen via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looking to add Ethernet ring protection switching into our network. I've > attached a PDF demonstrating the topology of the test tower set. I'm leaning > toward a G.8032v2 implementation simply because it's ITU standards based and > not vendor specific. Other options include Brocade MRP, Moxa Turbo Chain, > etc. Any shared wisdom would be greatly appreciate before we get ourselves > pot committed. > > Scott >
