[117224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Ring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Mon Sep 7 02:10:38 2009
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <354013.26624.qm@web52309.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:09:45 +1200
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 7/09/2009, at 4:14 PM, ty chan wrote:
> I am in process of planning ring network to cover 15 POPs in City.
> Some technologies are chosen for consideration like SDH(Huawei),
> PVRST+(Cisco), RSTP(Zyxel), EAPS (extreme network) and MPLS(VPLS).
> The purpose is to provide L2 Ethernet connectivities from POPs to
> central point (DC) and ring protection.
Of the above, VPLS.
But it really depends what you need to do. If you're selling customers
cross-town L2 services then yeah VPLS is the best option in my opinion.
If this is for use between your own equipment, other technologies
might make more sense.
I echo Roland's comment, but I'll make it more specific - stay away
from anything with spanning tree in it.
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Nathan Ward
