[142836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enterprise Internet - Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jul 14 19:06:00 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1107141735281.33696@murf.icantclick.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:03:37 -0700
To: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:35 PM, david raistrick wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Jeff Cartier wrote:
>=20
>> - Does the idea of having local Internet at each site make more =
sense? If so why?
>=20
> IME, costs for private backhaul circuits of any flavor are =
significantly higher than costs for plain internet access - so =
backhauling internet access (unless you have extremely restrictive =
access policies that you can actually enforce) through your WAN =
would/should cost through the nose. Routing only WAN traffic through the =
WAN reduces the size/scope/impact on those more expensive circuits. =
Probably at the expense of additional complexity, of course.
>=20
In fact, it is often more cost effective to multihome each site and use =
VPNs for your WAN.
Owen
