Inline... ""Chuck's Long Road"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 struggling to imagine a customer who actually needs FULL gig-e to each of several hundred sites who didn't also have access to physical plant. Why send back Sonet to the customer hub site? One or more 802.1q GE trunks should be fine. To the customer hub site you'll have 1(or more) VLANs to each spoke site. No routing or fancy things for the provider to control for the customer, just simple L2 like always. It sounds like the spoke sites are all within very close proximity, using only a handful of CO's. Riverstone and Extreme both make L2 switches with GE density you'd require. With extreme you could entertain T1's(hopefully over UNE) or (probably not) VDSL where data rate wasn't near gige. Seriously I'd be looking at innovative ways of doing agreegation, using some of the spokes to do aggregation, RPR/DPT, utilizing other providers(onfiber?) to aggregate sites which are within their footprint. If you've got a lot broader area to cover I think the dollar savings will be much higher by challenging the goals and doing intersting things to meet the goals rather than doing just Full GE to each site. > 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. > I think you'll find the ILECs wanting to provide ptp GE (ala gigaman) and the ethernet providers wanting to provide VLANs from point A to B. The competitively priced wavelength and dark fiber folks probably don't have the footprint you need. Other things will require some cooperation which with several hundred high bandwidth sites you'll find a lot of compromise. Drop the ILEC GE (overpriced)into the nearest agreegation point of the competitive folks while taking care not to get killed by port costs everywhere. Plenty of providers at this point would be glad to work together on a project of this scope. Heck I know I'd like to work on piecing together a competitive solution or do independant evaluation of the proposals. Hope this helps a bit and Good Luck, Darrell Newcomb Technology Advisor, Netswitch http://www.netswitch.net > So, what have you folks run across? Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54397&t=53862 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
