Equinix MPLS connectivity

Sun Oct 10 04:58:02 UTC 2010

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 10/9/10 5:08 PM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:
>> We have been looking into Sprint but one issue we are running into is
>> lack of IPv6 support.  So we are looking into Level3 and Global.  I
>> think Equinix may also have its own connectivity they can sell you.
>>
>
> Um, if you order an MPLS connection between two distant sites, doesn't
> the provider normally (in my experience) just hand you ports that are
> effectively layer 2? IPvAnything doesn't even factor in.

oh, so it occurs to me that when I read the original post I read it as
'mpls network' not 'mpls p2p link', I suppose if the OP was looking
for an L2 circuit emulated across an MPLS network ... that's the same
thing as a wave (basically) at the customer hand off.

-chris