[83889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS or Site2Site VPN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Tue Aug 30 14:50:00 2005
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:49:33 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <e05f39290508300700da9b7c1@mail.gmail.com>; from Kim Onnel on Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:00:56AM +0300
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(sorry for the continuing top-post) Speaking of Hub-and-Spokes,
what about Frame Relay (from a single provider that covers all
your states)? I imagine that it's probably run over their own
backbone using MPLS anyway.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:00:56AM +0300, Kim Onnel wrote:
>
> What about doing the VPN onver the internet, with IPSec tunnels
> terminated in a hub and spoke model, i dont know price wise, but it
> would work fine.
>
> On 8/29/05, Todd Reed <treed@astate.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking at connecting 15+ multi-state locations together to start
> > forming a private corporate network. The sites are small with 25-30
> > devices. I want to avoid direct-T1's due to cost, therefore I'm looking for
> > alternatives. I know I can do site-to-site VPN, but I've also heard a lot
> > about MPLS and from what I've read, it may be a good option. Over the next
> > year, we will be adding 5-10 more sites, so expansion is important. I'm not
> > planning to do voice, but it may be an option in 2-3 years. If anyone has
> > any suggestions on their experiences, I would greatly appreciate it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Todd
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Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
