[151256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Wed Mar 14 08:40:13 2012
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAKnNFz8dVn2e89kmkn23MoMw9_c7Cc0jmAoUbSc962jFQ6rC0A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:41:39 -0400
To: chris <tknchris@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Is that is needed, what is wrong with that ?
Isn't MPLS a form of encapsulation ? Don't the enterprise folks run routing p=
rotocols on it ?
With carriers today it is very common to deliver L2 connectivity over L3 net=
works.
One does not have to like it...and just because someone else (upstream) does=
it for one, it does not mean it is wrong......just the nature of networks a=
nd growth, solving problems with the available set of tools...
Faisal
On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:40 AM, chris <tknchris@gmail.com> wrote:
> next lets encapsulate bgp over http next so we can run bgp at wifi hotspot=
s
> :)
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
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>> One possible avenue is put a router/computer in a colo and build a GRE
>> tunnel over your FiOS connection to the data center, and then "peer" with=
>> folk there.
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>> Frank
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:streiner@cluebyfour.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:27 PM
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
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>> All:
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>> I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to
>> determine if Verizon will speak BGP with FiOS business customers. Their
>> website is relatively lean on details. Everything that mentions BGP
>> points to VZB services, which does not appear to include FiOS. Looking a=
t
>> the routing table, I do see several non-VZ ASNs downstream of AS19262, so=
>> it looks like it might be possible.
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>> If that is the case, could anyone lend any insight to get past the "what
>> is BGP?" response that likely awaits from their salescritters?
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>> jms
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