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Re: MPLS acceptable latency?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Nov 15 14:21:18 2012

From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACdRzPzhXeMtUM1_9Rj6qN=dX+A11EQ7mpDjPjD0QerHimL7UA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:16:14 -0500
To: Mikeal Clark <mikeal.clark@gmail.com>
Cc: "NANOG \[nanog@nanog.org\]" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Nov 15, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Mikeal Clark wrote:

> Hello!
>=20
> I have some AT&T MPLS sites under a managed contract with latency
> averaging 75-85 ms without any load.  These sites are only 45 minutes
> away.  What is considered normal/acceptable?

MPLS as a technology should not add any significant delay as it is just =
a few bytes of label on the packet.

What is the physical path of the circuits involved?  Have you asked for =
the design of them?

- Jared=


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