-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 08/01/16 17:56, Charlie Boisseau wrote: > I hadn’t thought of that - you might be right. I probably > wouldn’t want our field engineers having to carry around a 1U > demarcation device and reconfigure it every time for the purposes > of testing. But I like the idea of having an ADVA at a head-end, > and the field testers being able to interop with it.
Yes.. Suitable does hinge on the level of clue needed to (re-)configure it for each use. In the case that I speak of, we would send the demarc device out with the Field Engineer, pre-configured. They just had to plug it in. Once SSH was available, the RFC2544 configuration was added and a test was run. When we were happy with the results, we removed said configuration and that was our CPE for the circuit. No Field Engineer interaction required. I know we still had some legacy requirements where the 3916 didn't fit every solution. And, of course, you need L2 connectivity end to end to make use of it, which could involve a bit of service configuration (i.e. extende relevant VLAN/L2VPN to the test server, remove when done ) that would need automating to make it less annoying. Still, RFC2544 produced some accurate results I think - it was nice having it baked into the CPE, as it could be ran whenever we needed it. :) - -- Tom Hill Network Engineer Bytemark Hosting http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ tel. +44 1904 890 890 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWj/rnAAoJEH2fKbrp2sQ6+z0IAKEUAINqTwmZst6XhhqN5ntf OQM7+EdzZ3Ig/PfjjutIwLsyThML7AZT6Kfe7ZS/FtuT7rtUo3oqiVq7FEuD9TOx g9aVnonHd66p5g9f+gKg9egps8sMy+jr47ehmGK0hJOIe3VPhpZXbEdUUDL9tWG/ PiCycQ/8IQjj3O6maqBWkwNFInfYM7v3NuLgOesvS+E0C/acmworGKLKDTFhIvkq YxwHfzDlhbpS3dmS2y+Q4FjmtyBMjj/H1o4GwLgH8jRYtnylh8J5eoUxMscdxjB6 Av7nPyODGa1vpnV7Ce8xWYwylyu6nrPx+QgPmTcPyOamz1PcCp74C4bVT5Abq3o= =IBgO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
