[59922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carriers using CES in the wild?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Fri Jul 25 09:21:59 2003
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:21:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030725032709.GB26491@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Actually I was moreso looking to see if any of the "major" carriers were
doing it on the sly, ie, selling it as point-to-point TDM but instead it
was CES
Thanks,
--
David Temkin
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jared Mauch wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:50:30PM -0400, Dave Temkin wrote:
> >
> > Is anyone aware of any carriers that are using CES as a transport method
> > as private line and aren't necessarily selling it as such? (ie, I've
> > ordered a DS-3 from point A to point B, and instead of the carrier
> > dropping it as standard TDM it's CES through their network...)
>
> What you are speaking of is most likely what juniper
> calls CCC. L2 transport over their network. Not too dificult to set up
> but as usual the complications come in the realm of redundancy and
> network reconvergence.
>
> I'd pay close attention to the SLA offered, but it
> is probally similar to what is seen in a TDM network if they
> employ mpls fast reroute .. and if you're doing IP
> over this circuit, you will probally be less likely to notice any
> problems.
>
> - Jared
>
>
