[157935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS acceptable latency?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Nov 15 14:24:03 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121115111505.90E09BD7@m0005312.ppops.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:20:40 -0500
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 15, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
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> --- mikeal.clark@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Mikeal Clark <mikeal.clark@gmail.com>
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> 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?
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> Coast-to-coast latency is around 60-65msec, so that's high.
What link speed?
Perhaps he's using ISDN or a T1?
Serialization delay is not to be ignored.
- Jared
