[135881] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EPC backhaul networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ping Pan)
Sun Jan 30 14:18:58 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikTNTe6nCZcwHC-zML8wTgL27UEMQVTLKA4A-A9@mail.gmail.com>
From: Ping Pan <ping@pingpan.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:17:51 -0800
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Heard a lot about MPLS-TP to apply in this area. What do you think? Is it
for real?
Thanks!
Ping
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2011 10:11 AM, "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> >/
> >> There are just more companies offering L2 metroE than L3 in the backhaul
> space. I have pushed for L3 but very few offer the speeds and reach
> required
> >
> >
> > Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "reach" here?
> >
> >
>
> The only way to reach 2000 cell sites in Chicago with 100megs of Ethernet
> handoff is with L2 metroE. There is not a feasible L3 service offered
> today.
>
> > --
> > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>
