On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:35 PM, david raistrick wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Jeff Cartier wrote: > >> - Does the idea of having local Internet at each site make more sense? If so >> why? > > IME, costs for private backhaul circuits of any flavor are significantly > higher than costs for plain internet access - so backhauling internet access > (unless you have extremely restrictive access policies that you can actually > enforce) through your WAN would/should cost through the nose. Routing only > WAN traffic through the WAN reduces the size/scope/impact on those more > expensive circuits. Probably at the expense of additional complexity, of > course. > In fact, it is often more cost effective to multihome each site and use VPNs for your WAN.
Owen
