We have "Metro Ethernet" here for internet. I guess we could do without routers, but we would still need a firewall. Unfortunately, since we didn't want to change our IP, and our ISP ran out of IPs in the same range, we couldn't keep it without a router. Point is, Metro-E works for us, at least for two of our three internet connections. We don't have any point-to-point connections, but it's something I've looked at. It doesn't make sense for us at this time as we don't have a unified phone system and our email is hosted by our ISP. I have plans to change that, so maybe we'll want to go the PTP route ourselves. J
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WAN over ethernet? Yesterday I had a discussion with our Internet/point-to-point provider. I am considering increasing my point-to-point bandwidth connections at all of my sites. Cox, my provider, has a new product called "Metro Ethernet" which essentially brings ethernet to the WAN, and this would be an option. My PTP connections would be replaced with ethernet. I could plug the ethernet cable into my router or for small sites just right into the office switch (and vlan do whatever as I would please). Cox tells me this is the "next generation" of WAN routing. It would be up to me to tag traffic that I consider critical (voice, ICA, etc) which would receive priority. Easy enough. Here is some info: http://www.coxbusiness.com/products/data/metroethernet.html This could simplify things here and I would not have to purchase routers for all of my remote sites if I didn't want to do so. And for my core switches here I wouldn't need those expensive PRI/T1 cards that I currently use. Anyone using this? I'm not a routing expert (I do enough to get the sites connected but spend most of my time on other things) so opinions/comments appreciated. Cost-wise it's a little more per month but with less hardware it would probably be a wash. If it matters my Cox point-to-point circuits are very reliable and rarely go down. Only the type-2 circuits have issues (Verizon issues usually). Thanks, Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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