One of my coworkers was telling me about a project he is working on. We are positioning a gigabit service, which in this neck of the woods is a point to point technology.
The customer has a giant hub site and several hundred remote sites, making provisioning somewhat problematic. Rack space, for one thing. At this point in time, the telco I work for does not have the means to provide aggregation services. I'm thinking that about the only way we could offer some kind of efficiency to the customer is to provide CO space, and put in a high end switch with the required number of gigabit ports for termination of the gig links. This switch would also have an appropriate OC port, and the connection from the CO to the customer hub site would then be OC to OC. I'm wondering if other folks on the list have dealt with similar type considerations and what their telco's might be offering in terms of aggregation of gigabit links. Out here, the telco would have to start thinking in terms of being a service provider rather than a provider of circuits. I'm not so sure that would be an easy ( or even possible ) transition, for a lot of reasons, both political and practical. For one thing, the telco would then become responsible for maintenance and configuration of all CO homed equipment, something that I am not certain telcos really want to do. So, what have you folks run across? Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=53862&t=53862 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
