[191174] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's the meaning of virtual POP ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Aug 25 05:10:26 2016
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:10:20 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: David Siegel <Dave.Siegel@level3.com>
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> At Level 3, a VPOP is a POP that we operate under someone else's
> license. For example, we have VPOPs in a number of markets throughout
> the Asia Pacific region, including countries like China, Vietnam,
> Indonesia, and others. We are buying a service from a partner that
> has an operating license in that country where they provide routers,
> entrance facilities, colo and other related infrastructure items, but
> we otherwise operate it as a full POP. It's in our OSS/BSS systems
> like any other location.
how does this work for mpls vpn based services across continent/country?
i.e. are there inter-provider mpls vpn issues?
randy
