Yes, except it is done via Switched Ethernet and VLANs. The idea behind virtual peering. Your gear is in Amsterdam and someone gives you VLANs to LINX.
- R. ________________________________ From: NANOG <[email protected]> on behalf of William Herrin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 12:46 AM To: Yucong Sun Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: What's the meaning of virtual POP ? On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Yucong Sun <[email protected]> wrote: > I came across the idea of the virtual POP , but the website for them have > way too much jargon to me[1][2][3], can someone explain it like i'm five > (:-D)? A virtual Point Of Presence means that you provide services at a location via someone else's facilities. The classic example was extending a PRI for dialup modems inside a particular local calling area via a point-to-point T1 back to your modem bank somewhere else that would have been a long distance call for those customers. If you put a modem bank in their local calling area, it's a POP. If you extend the circuit from their local calling area back to your modem bank elsewhere, it's a virtual POP. Modern examples of virtual POPs are much fancier but it's the same basic idea. > 1. Is virtual POP basically a L2VPN? It can be. Depends on what service you're extending from the "virtual" location. > 2. Do such vPOP have guaranteed latency/bandwidth? Depends on what you're extending and how. > 3. Is that really useful? It can be. It can let you dip your toes in a market without a large up-front investment in equipment and backhaul. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> Dirtside Systems<http://www.dirtside.com/> www.dirtside.com Welcome! You are our 370,765 th guest. Dirtside builds ground systems and ground system software for the satellite and mobile communications industries.
