On 16 Jan 2013, at 23:57, Gavin Henry wrote: > Does anyone work with telcos abroad that backhaul this type of edge to the UK?
I've done M2M hand-off projects with Optus Australia (semi-proprietary Cisco IPsec setup) and T-Mobile Austria (good old L2TP) on behalf of clients. Optus was a mess, not just because of timezones, but because there was some fun getting the IPsec SA to work with anything except a Cisco box. T-Mobile was completely the opposite: superbly smooth, and their technical team very on the ball, had pro-active monitoring (how does a mobile telco not have monitoring?!), etc. In both cases, there was no direct connection as they don't have any IXes or POPs in common, so all backhauled over transit. I saw mention of QoS earlier in the thread. None of the mobile telcos I've had dealings with have shown any enthusiasm for QoS support — probably don't have it — though these connections were set up a few years ago now. The closest I've come to a mention of QoS was Cable and Wireless (UK) who claimed their handoffs would have QoS. That client didn't go with them as a supplier, but I suspect the bumf I was forwarded from C&W that mentioned QoS would have turned out only to go as far as QoS within their MPLS cloud to handoff at $client's premises, and not back into the mobile network. Regards, Marek Isalski Technical Director, Faelix Limited, http://faelix.net/ Faelix Limited: Security, Networks & Software. Registered in England and Wales. Office: 13 Peveril Crescent, Manchester, M21 9WR. Company: 5852778. VAT: 889 441470.
