[157943] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS acceptable latency?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Nov 15 16:24:18 2012
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:23:39 -0500
To: Mikeal Clark <mikeal.clark@gmail.com>
Cc: "NANOG \[nanog@nanog.org\]" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Mikeal Clark <mikeal.clark@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I've noticed this with AT&T's MPLS product when dealing with the
internal corporate network here. I don't know what they're doing wrong
but it is so very wrong.
> What is considered normal/acceptable?
Less than 10ms unless you're using a sub-T1 interface or going a very
long distance.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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