[130687] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Equinix MPLS connectivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sat Oct 9 12:12:29 2010
In-Reply-To: <SNT119-W14226C8C0B8F73391B9A0DC510@phx.gbl>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:12:16 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com> w=
rote:
> Hi Leo:
since you are addressing my comment, probably you meant 'chris' there...
> Just trying to understand the lingo. What do you mean by buying a "wave" =
on
> someone's dwdm system? And what is dwdm?
'wave' - wavelength, one optical path (though a single wavelength used not =
many)
'dwdm' - dense wave division multiplexing, many optical transport
systems today multiplex different optical wavelengths on a single
fiber. Most optical transport vendors will sell you one wavelength
from point to point on their system, or many waves if you need more
than one wave's capacity.
-chris
>
> Thanks for the heads up!
>
>
>
>> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:24:16 -0400
>> Subject: Re: Equinix MPLS connectivity
>> From: morrowc.lists@gmail.com
>> To: leo.woltz@gmail.com
>> CC: nanog@nanog.org
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Leo Woltz <leo.woltz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > We are looking for some MPLS connectivity between Equinix Ashburn =A0a=
nd
>> > Equinix San Jose =A0who would the group recommend?
>>
>> why not just buy a wave on someone's dwdm system? (why mpls, I
>> suppose, for what sounds like a ptp application)
>>
>
