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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:26:20 -0500 From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net> To: Jon Mansey <jon_mansey@verestar.com> Cc: "'Nanog@Merit. Edu'" <nanog@merit.edu> Message-ID: <20020322172620.GA16287@puck.nether.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <F334402F-3DB8-11D6-A1EB-003065477C74@verestar.com> Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu The cost of the GE modules that are capable of doing this are much lower than oc48 type interfaces for a router. If someone is building a cheap network (see rfc1925) it may not be their first choice to do so but what is forced upon them. - jared On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:19:21AM -0800, Jon Mansey wrote: > > Sorry if this is a naive question, but why would you want to do layer 2 > over WAN distances anyways? Whats wrong with good old SONET, IP and > routing? Do you have non-IP protocols to haul? > > jm > > On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 09:02 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Greg Pendergrass wrote: > >> > >>Absolutely right, I don't care what's in between as long as I have GigE > >>at > >>the end. Other options include using wave (too expensive), or ethernet > >>over > >>MPLS (worth considering although latency may be too high for longer that > >>1000 miles). > > > >Why would latency be too high? Just talk to one of the carriers who do > >everything over MPLS, I'm sure they're more then interested in selling > >some kind of "VPN services" (well someone in the company is at any rate, > >most sales people would be flatly stumped and are more concerned with > >trying to keep their jobs than finding you cheap longhaul anyways). > > > >You might want to try isp-bandwidth, it's a list more suited for finding > >specific services you can buy and specific sales weenies who will try and > >sell it to you. I know I've seen the GigE long-haul transport subject come > >up a couple time there... > > > >-- > >Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > >PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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