[130701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Equinix MPLS connectivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Oct 10 02:20:24 2010
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:20:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikvoTR-GgrzFwmJ1nCi7xMRpOPY9G90kBhgBPWC@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> 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.
That's why one never should use "MPLS" when talking about customer
connections, unless they're actually carriers carrier or something like
that.
L2 or L3 VPN is fine, that is a service, MPLS is a way to produce that
service. Asking for "MPLS connectivity" is just asking for
misunderstandings.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
