Re: Multihop eBGP peering or VPN based eBGP peering

2013-06-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 17, 2013, at 00:36 , Otis L. Surratt, Jr. o...@ocosa.com wrote: Any idea why more companies don't offer eBGP peering / multi hop peering? Its very common for providers to offer single or double hop peering, so why not 5 or 10 hops? In many cases people find it logical to perform single

Re: Multihop eBGP peering or VPN based eBGP peering

2013-06-17 Thread Randy Bush
Perhaps I am missing something from your advantage list, but why would you want to exchange routing information with a network to which you don't have a connection due to a local failure? I think you are attempting to abstract routing from the underlying physical infrastructure a bit too

RE: Multihop eBGP peering or VPN based eBGP peering

2013-06-17 Thread Otis L. Surratt, Jr.
-Original Message- From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patr...@ianai.net] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 1:37 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Multihop eBGP peering or VPN based eBGP peering On Jun 17, 2013, at 00:36 , Otis L. Surratt, Jr. o...@ocosa.com wrote: First, inside your own network

recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Chuck Anderson
I'm in need of my first free-standing, pad-mounted outdoor enclosure, 19 rack rails, 12-18 rack units, with about 400W of heat load inside, for use in the Massachusetts climate. What do people recommend as far as contruction, cooling/heating options, NEMA ratings, security options, etc. for this

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Alex Lesser
I came across this once. Seems interesting but we have never used it ourselves. 400 Watts is not much so I believe this unit may even be overkill. http://www.ellipticalmedia.com/raserhd.html On 6/17/2013 3:36 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: I'm in need of my first free-standing, pad-mounted

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Latham
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: I'm in need of my first free-standing, pad-mounted outdoor enclosure, 19 rack rails, 12-18 rack units, with about 400W of heat load inside, for use in the Massachusetts climate. What do people recommend as far as contruction,

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Josh Baird
http://www.ddbunlimited.com/ Be prepared to drop some coin. Josh On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: I'm in need of my first free-standing, pad-mounted outdoor enclosure, 19 rack rails, 12-18 rack units, with about 400W of heat load inside, for use in the

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Tim Jackson
Alpha's Radium Minibays should be a good start of what to look at and seems to fit your requirements: http://www.alpha.ca/web2/products/enclosures/outdoor-enclosures-medium/item/radium-minibay-series On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: I'm in need of my first

10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread eric clark
Greetings I may be needing 10 gig from the West Coast to the East Coast some time in the next year. I've got my ideas on what that would cost, but I don't have anything that big. This could be a leased line, part of a cloud with Verizon, NTT, Sprint, or whoever as the provider, etc. I'm just

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Lyon
http://www.ddbunlimited.com/ -mike Sent from my iPhone On Jun 17, 2013, at 12:49, Alex Lesser a...@pssclabs.com wrote: I came across this once. Seems interesting but we have never used it ourselves. 400 Watts is not much so I believe this unit may even be overkill.

Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:51:28 -0700, eric clark said: I may be needing 10 gig from the West Coast to the East Coast Might want to be more specific. Catalina Island, CA to Buxton, NC (home of Cape Hatteras High School) will probably be way different than downtown LA to downtown Boston.

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Jon Sands
This is by far a cheaper option, but should work just fine. I'm about to do the same myself. Grab a used cab here - http://www.usedtowers.com/CABINETS/CABINETS.htm Some of those come with the factory huge AC systems built for thousands of watts of equipment inside, but if you're like me and

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Joe Hamelin
Clearwire uses these and they are very nice. www.*ddb*unlimited.com -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474 On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: I'm in need of my first free-standing, pad-mounted outdoor enclosure, 19 rack rails, 12-18 rack units,

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread david peahi
I have had success with the opposite approach using equipment rated from -40 C to +85 C (+185 F), no fans, sealed NEMA4 or NEMA12 Hoffman enclosures, cooling by equipment heat sinks. Ethernet switches and optics rated -40 C to +85 C This configuration has worked with the same equipment for at

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:19:07PM -0400, Jon Sands wrote: This is by far a cheaper option, but should work just fine. I'm about to do the same myself. Grab a used cab here - http://www.usedtowers.com/CABINETS/CABINETS.htm Some of those come with the factory huge AC systems built for

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Jon Sands
Woah, the last quote I got from them was less than half the price of a cab. I guess I'm cooling less equipment? What model are you looking at? On 6/17/2013 4:28 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:19:07PM -0400, Jon Sands wrote: This is by far a cheaper option, but should

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread Chuck Anderson
Unfortunately, I have some specific non-commodity circuit boards I'm dealing with, so I have to accommodate their environmental requirements. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:22:26PM -0700, david peahi wrote: I have had success with the opposite approach using equipment rated from -40 C to +85 C

Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread eric clark
Fair enough Seattle to Boston is the general route, real close. On Monday, June 17, 2013, wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:51:28 -0700, eric clark said: I may be needing 10 gig from the West Coast to the East Coast Might want to be more specific. Catalina Island, CA to Buxton, NC (home of

Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread Carlos Alcantar
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Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread George Herbert
Also, what are reliability and redundancy requirements. 10 gigs of bare naked fiber is one thing, but if you need extra paths redundancy, figure that out now and specify. Is this latency, bandwidth, both? Mission critical, business critical, less priority? 24x7x365, or subset of that, or

Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread Jeff Kell
On 6/17/2013 10:32 PM, George Herbert wrote: Also, what are reliability and redundancy requirements. 10 gigs of bare naked fiber is one thing, but if you need extra paths redundancy, figure that out now and specify. Is this latency, bandwidth, both? Mission critical, business critical,

Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread Eric Clark
all of these questions are valid. The guys who will use it would love to have line rate on the 10G, for a single conversation, but that's not going to happen. So, there's a certain amount of expectation management. For the purpose we're proposing, this would be an additional link to an

Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread Eric Clark
I'm looking for options. With dark fiber, obviously, I have the ultimate in options. However, its the ultimate in cost as you say. The requirement we have is 10gig of actual throughput. Precisely what mechanism is used to transport it isn't all that important, though I'm certain that there

Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread Phil Fagan
I've had pretty good luck with CenturyLinks 10G wave offerings: http://shop.centurylink.com/largebusiness/enterprisesolutions/products/ethernet/qwave.html Ethernet hand-off at both sites with IPsec or GRE provided a pretty solid environment. You should be able to take advantage of some UDP