[74187] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Multi-link Frame Relay OR Load Balancing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kwallace@pcconnection.com)
Thu Sep 16 22:43:43 2004
From: kwallace@pcconnection.com
To: benevold@southern.edu, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:43:00 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
You may want to consider a DS3. In terms of access cost, the break even
point is usually right around 8 DS1's. The only caveat is you will need a
fiber connection to a LEC or CLEC to provide a connection.
If you want to stay with the DS1 route, in addition to frame, you may want
to consider ATM - IMA. That will bond everything into one nice 9mb
connection, and will downspeed if a few DS1's go down.
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 5:44 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Multi-link Frame Relay OR Load Balancing
We are in the process of updating our internet connection to 8 t1's bound
together. Due to price, our options have been narrowed to AT&T and MCI.
I have two questions:
1. Which technology is better for binding t1's: multi link frame relay
(mci's) or load balancing (att's)
2. Which company has a better pop in Atlanta: mci or att?
We are in the Chattanooga TN area and our current connection is 6 t1's
through att but they will only bond 4 so they are split 4 and 2.
Bryce Enevoldson
Information Processing
Southern Adventist University
