so, John, whatever happened to the MPLS network they were trying to sell you a while back? what advantage does PRN have vis a vis MPLS such that Quest is no longer trying to convince you to buy it?
inquiring minds need to know :-> ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Peter van Oene wrote: > > > > At 04:31 PM 7/21/2003 +0000, John Neiberger wrote: > > >Are any of you using Qwest PRN? If so, I have a few questions > > for you: > > > > > >1. How do you like it so far? > > >2. Did you migrate from something else? If so, how did the > > migration go? > > >3. Any 'gotchas' that you learned later that you wish you'd > > learned sooner? > > >4. How does the service compare to what you were using before? > > >5. How many sites do you have? Is this solution scaling well > > for you? > > > > Hey John, > > > > What is PRN? Private routed network? Can't seem to find much > > about it in my > > brief googling. > > > > Oops. Accidentally hit post before adding any content. ;-) > > Yes, it stands for Private Routed Network. It's a very interesting solution. > Our hub sites would participate in OSPF with their network, while our spoke > sites would use static routing. The PRN would have static routes pointing to > our spoke sites and those statics would be redistributed into OSPF. > > The biggest downside to this is that we'd have to contact Qwest each time we > added a new subnet at a branch, but I suppose that just means we'd need to > plan ahead better. > > This solution buys us a few things over our current frame relay network. > Each site has a full pipe into the PRN instead of multiple PVCs sharing a > single link, and we don't have to deal with CIR. From the perspective of our > routers each site is one hop away from any other site. These combination of > these features will allow us to proceed with VoIP throughout our network, > which is not feasible with the current frame relay network. > > John Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=72713&t=72704 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
