Good evening everyone,
We are on the verge of expanding our MPLS core outside several metro areas, across the pond into London as well as interconnecting the existing metro areas in the southeast, midwest, and mountain regions in north America. Today within a metro region we have been using dark fiber and local metro Ethernet links between sites. Now that we are connecting the regions and crossing an ocean, we need an inexpensive high speed layer 2 service to build point-to-point links between the regional tier1 sites. To accomplish this, we have been looking at Cogent L2 service (q-in-q style) as well as AT&T OPT-E-WAN. I am writing this email in hopes of capturing feedback from any users of these services (and others that we may not be aware of) doing something similar. Currently bandwidth between regions is over half a gig, and growth is expected to put us over a gig in under 3 years. Unfortunately at this time we really lack the resources necessary to manage our own optical system to build these connections, and have been hooked on cheapernet for affordable growth. Please let me know (off list is fine if you prefer) your experiences if any with these services, or if you know of similar L2 services available that are affordable at higher speeds. I really appreciate the broad reach of users on this list and their experience to help us avoid problems discovered by others and find the best solutions the first time around. Thanks, John _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
