RE: Routing issues to AWS environment.

2019-05-09 Thread Nick Ellermann
ing around 30ms to the return latency versus the typical 2ms to 3ms latency. We do have Layer2 between our POPs. Is ignoring AS prepending common? Given my example issue, what direction would you normally take? Sincerely, Nick Ellermann -Original Message- From: NANOG On Beha

routing issues between NTT/ATT/Level3?

2016-09-26 Thread Nick Ellermann
surfer but killing our customers voip and vpn traffic. It's really hard to diagnose and fix other vendors' networks! Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com<mailto:nellerm...@broadaspect.com> P: 703-297-4639 F: 70

RE: Lightower (ASN:46887) RTBH community info

2016-09-26 Thread Nick Ellermann
I would love to know which ISP's support RTBH? We have struggled to get anyone to support communities. If their website says they do, their NOC sure doesn't know it or agree... I don't want to list names here, but truly we would love RTBH capabilities with our upstreams. Sincerely, Nick

RE: Question on peering strategies

2016-05-16 Thread Nick Ellermann
switch to have as many problems as any upstream provider. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann – CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com P: 703-297-4639 F: 703-996-4443   THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use

RE: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application

2016-05-05 Thread Nick Ellermann
is something to look at as well, but don't overlook Sonicwall and FortiGate. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com P: 703-297-4639 F: 703-996-4443   THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATE

RE: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application

2016-05-05 Thread Nick Ellermann
message me, happy to give more info. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com P: 703-297-4639 F: 703-996-4443   THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recip

RE: Peering Exchange

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Ellermann
). Essentially from what we understand you peer once to Equinix's router and all other participants and you are able to exchange traffic. It's not an all or none, you can use filtering to exclude specific ASNs. We are not a member of this service today. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann – CTO & VP C

RE: Peering Exchange

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Ellermann
Exchange is meant for those Equinix customers wanting to connect to one or more cloud service providers. The larger Cloud providers now also have 'Direct Connect' services at Equinix as well as another option. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann – CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nel

Comcast operator?

2016-01-20 Thread Nick Ellermann
, but I know the rabbit hole I would go down if I asked Comcast technical support since none of them really know anything about networking and just read a script. Thanks! Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com<mailto:nellerm...@broadasp

RE: Programmable SFP+ Transcievers

2016-01-18 Thread Nick Ellermann
We have purchased a lot through the Solid-Optics US team. Very happy with their pricing, reliability and support. We have their multi-fiber tool and have reprogrammed optics as needed to go between MFG equipment. I can only recommend that you give them a try. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann – CTO

RE: ISP marking ipsec traffic based on certificate, how is this possible?

2015-12-17 Thread Nick Ellermann
situations where a restart works the best especially when the issue is not in under your control. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann – CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com P: 703-297-4639 F: 703-996-4443   THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIE

IPv4 subnets for lease?

2015-12-17 Thread Nick Ellermann
to at least introduce these customers to some contacts that may be able to help. Do we know of any reputable sources that are leasing or selling IPv4 subnets as small as a /24 to satisfy their diversity needs? Thanks! Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect E: nel

RE: Nat

2015-12-15 Thread Nick Ellermann
What features and scale do you need? Assume with NAT you are performing some levels of firewall security and serving applications? Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com P: 703-297-4639 F: 703-996-4443   THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CON

Anyone having issues with Equinix IX out of Ashburn?

2015-11-27 Thread Nick Ellermann
At about 4:15 am eastern we lost our bgp peers on the Ashburn IX at Equinix. Equinix is not responding to our support requests, either they are overloaded with support requests or all on holiday. Curious if others know if there are known issues at this site or is it just us. Sincerely, Nick

RE: Veeam Cloud Connect?

2015-11-18 Thread Nick Ellermann
years and we enjoy the service provider program. Message me offline if you would like to know more. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com P: 703-297-4639 F: 703-996-4443   THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHER

RE: EyeBall View

2015-10-26 Thread Nick Ellermann
on the various networks won't get anything from it, you are going to be struggling to have enough take rate to have good statistics. You may find that the only ones interested are a small set of network operators. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO & VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nel

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-05 Thread Nick Ellermann
and general internet access for end users. Nick Ellermann ~Sent from my iPhone~ On Jul 5, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Mel Beckman m...@beckman.org wrote: Many firewalls will do state sync across an HA link. This works fine as long as you use BGP to ensure internet routing of your IPv4 to all gateways

Re: OT - Small DNS appliances for remote offices.

2015-02-18 Thread Nick Ellermann
to learn or manage! Nick Ellermann ~Sent from my iPhone~ On Feb 18, 2015, at 4:08 PM, Maxwell Cole mcole.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for the pi, The new model has a quad core and 1GB of ram which should be more than enough for a DNS. On 2/18/15 10:03 AM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote

Level3 routing issues today?

2015-02-11 Thread Nick Ellermann
? Anyone from Level3 or GoDaddy that could comment? We have had an open Level3 ticket since about 4PM Eastern. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO VP Cloud Services BroadAspect E: nellerm...@broadaspect.commailto:nellerm...@broadaspect.com P: 703-297-4639 F: 703-996-4443 THIS COMMUNICATION MAY

RE: Low cost WDM gear

2015-02-07 Thread Nick Ellermann
are only using their CWDM passive mux and various optics, been extremely happy on price and performance. No issues. Sincerely, Nick Ellermann – CTO VP Cloud Services BroadAspect   E: nellerm...@broadaspect.com P: 703-297-4639 F: 703-996-4443   THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL

Cisco IOS stable/production safe versions?

2015-01-27 Thread Nick Ellermann
. Any advice from fellow network operators that are running the 6500 platform in the core still for versions that are considered safe for production? We are stable, but I am really wanting access to features such as Netflow v9, etc. Thanks for any advice! Sincerely, Nick Ellermann - CTO VP