[130700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Equinix MPLS connectivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Oct 10 00:58:17 2010
In-Reply-To: <4CB1432B.4010708@rollernet.us>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:58:02 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 10/9/10 5:08 PM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:
>> We have been looking into Sprint but one issue we are running into is
>> lack of IPv6 support. =A0So we are looking into Level3 and Global. =A0I
>> think Equinix may also have its own connectivity they can sell you.
>>
>
> Um, if you order an MPLS connection between two distant sites, doesn't
> the provider normally (in my experience) just hand you ports that are
> effectively layer 2? IPvAnything doesn't even factor in.
oh, so it occurs to me that when I read the original post I read it as
'mpls network' not 'mpls p2p link', I suppose if the OP was looking
for an L2 circuit emulated across an MPLS network ... that's the same
thing as a wave (basically) at the customer hand off.
-chris
