I looked at Qwests VPN stuff a while back which I think is at least similar in overall design to PRN. Though there was benefit in this type of solution over frame relay from a technical standpoint, there was no cost benefit versus converting my frame network to point-to-point lines via local carrier and maintaining control over my own network. Their stuff at the time was ungodly expensive.
I do have a Qwest Internet T1 that has been flawless and their support is first rate. Its been down twice. The first time they had it fixed w/i 10 minutes of my call. The second time was because we lost main power to the building and it knocked out our perimeter router. Qwest took the initiative, and called me wondering why it was down about 3 hours after it went down. Verizon won't even guarantee a callback w/i 3 hours much less initiate the investigation. That said, we'll be moving it to an SBC internet line in the near future due to the high MRC on the Qwest line. -----Original Message----- From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Anyone using Qwest PRN ? [7:72704] 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=72716&t=72704 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
