Re: Branch Location Over The Internet

2015-08-12 Thread Patrick Cole
prefer to use a common Cisco or Juniper solution if one exists. There will be 50 users at the branch office. There is only one branch location at this time, but they might expand to a couple more but under 10. -- Patrick Cole z...@wwwires.com Senior Network Specialist World Without

Re: Arista Routing Solutions

2016-04-28 Thread Patrick Cole
apt and reprogram the HW accordingly. It is a fairly logical and reasonable algorithm to construct -- Patrick Cole <z...@wwwires.com> Senior Network Specialist World Without Wires PO Box 869. Palm Beach, QLD, 4221 Ph: 0410 626 630

Re: BRAS/BNG Suggestion

2016-12-03 Thread Patrick Cole
t's all about multi-month PoCs and > fully-managed rollouts at incumbent-telco scale. Think 20M subs, not 20k. > > Regards, > Tim. > > -- Patrick Cole <z...@wwwires.com> Senior Network Specialist World Without Wires PO Box 869. Palm Beach, QLD, 4221 Ph: 0410 626 630

Re: 10G MetroE 1-2U Switch

2017-04-21 Thread Patrick Cole
Only thing I'm missing is lack of tunnel byte counters for use by auto-bw, but Cisco say this is coming in Everest... Regards, Patrick Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 03:06:42PM -0500, Aaron Gould wrote: > Oh, ok... hmmm > > So what was the issue with Ciena and MPLS Patrick ? > > -Aaron &

Re: 10G MetroE 1-2U Switch

2017-04-21 Thread Patrick Cole
admitted their focus was on GMPLS and not MPLS-TE. For us, GMPLS has no real use case in our network. Patrick Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:45:06PM +1000, Patrick Cole wrote: > Aaron, > > The code is very green; the platform originally was inherited from > Nortel and as such they inve

Re: 10G MetroE 1-2U Switch

2017-04-18 Thread Patrick Cole
> > mpls in it... pretty sure Erik needs mpls... > > The 5150 will 'do MPLS', which is pretty clear from their website. The > references 5160, too. > > I wouldn't recommend it personally, but it is there. -- Patrick Cole <z...@wwwires.com> Senior Network Specialist World Witho

Re: cheap MPLS router recommendations

2020-10-27 Thread Patrick Cole
t; >And the likes of the M2400 looks good 4x10G plus some 1G, unfortunately >there are no details on the webpage (and the datasheet can’t be >downloaded… ) > > > >Are there more folks out there bundling open NOS and white-box HW along >with the support for the whole thing? > > > > > >adam -- Patrick Cole Chief Engineer Spirit Technology Solutions 19-25 Raglan St, South Melbourne VIC 3205 Desk:0385541391 Mobile: 0410626630

Re: Router Suggestions

2020-06-15 Thread Patrick Cole
his price range / >port configuration? Open to both new and used options. Looking to take >full BGP routes.  -- Patrick Cole Principal Engineer Spirit Telecom Ltd 19-25 Raglan St, South Melbourne VIC 3205 Desk:0385541391 Mobile: 0410626630

Re: Router Suggestions

2020-06-15 Thread Patrick Cole
know. But YMMV. -PC > We've been setting up some Arista DCS-7280CR2K-30-F lately and they have been > just OK. The pricing is not at all close to $12,000 though. > > -Drew > > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG On Behalf Of Patrick Cole > Sent: Mo

Re: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-05-28 Thread Patrick Cole
We ran a medium sized mpls network using ciena 3900 and 5000 series boxes on our microwave network. Nothing but problems, the mpls code was just not mature enough and our radio network had the boxes falling apart at the seams as storms rolled through. At that time they didn't support FRR

Re: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-05-30 Thread Patrick Cole
: >Patrick, >How long ago was this, and what code were they running? >What do you recommend for aggregation then? >On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:17 PM Patrick Cole wrote: > > We ran a medium sized mpls network using ciena 3900 and 5000 series > boxes on

Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6

2021-07-02 Thread Patrick Cole
c (Catalina) still requires ping6, and I don't have any recent Linux >systems handy. > >#ThisIsGood > >Mark. -- Patrick Cole Chief Architect Spirit Technology Solutions 19-25 Raglan St, South Melbourne VIC 3205 Desk:0385541391 Mobile: 0410626630