Thanks Will You're right, ideally the WAN link would be a PTP connection.
Using an ISP might not be a bad idea, at least for backup purposes. We could always create a PTP VPN to make that work... The capacity would need to be north of 10Mb, and as we're finding out, probably closer to 50Mb. (Right now, regional services are crippled whenever we're on the 10Mb line). I think we would even consider laying new fiber -- there are a number of other corporations in our area that likely rely on Verizon as well, that would probably be excited at the possibility of an alternative carrier. We're working on getting our own dark fiber right now, to connect our main campus to another of our buildings down the street, to get even a little farther away from Verizon, their exorbitant prices and poor service. Thanks for the reply and time. Mike On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Will Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > > > We use Quest (now known as “CenturyLink”) for our ISP. They do utilize > Verizon copper/fiber as the physical layer medium for our WAN link (100Mbps > metro-eth.) The problem is that most of the traditional physical facilities > were installed by Bell Atlantic or Verizon, and there’s no more > (non-expensive) right-of-way / installs to be had. So the ILECs are stuck > with leasing VZ phy media. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
