10gig coast to coast

Tue Jun 18 04:04:52 UTC 2013

I've had pretty good luck with CenturyLinks 10G wave offerings:
http://shop.centurylink.com/largebusiness/enterprisesolutions/products/ethernet/qwave.html

Ethernet hand-off at both sites with IPsec or GRE provided a pretty solid
environment. You should be able to take advantage of some UDP blasters at
what the latency profile will look like for you. Otherwise you could always
thread the crap out of whatever it is your transactioning across the link
to make up for TCP's jackknifes along with other tuning.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Eric Clark <cabenth at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for options.
>
> With dark fiber, obviously, I have the ultimate in options.
>
> However, its the ultimate in cost as you say.
>
> The requirement we have is 10gig of actual throughput. Precisely what
> mechanism is used to transport it isn't all that important, though I'm
> certain that there will be complaints... :)
>
> I'd LOVE to have me some DWDM, always wanted to run some of that gear, but
> at that point, why stop at 10G
>
> On Jun 17, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote:
>
> > On 6/17/2013 10:32 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> >> Also, what are reliability and redundancy requirements.
> >>
> >> 10 gigs of bare naked fiber is one thing, but if you need extra paths
> >> redundancy, figure that out now and specify.
> >>
> >> Is this latency, bandwidth, both?  Mission critical, business critical,
> >> less priority?  24x7x365, or subset of that, or intermittent only?
> >
> > And are you looking for "dark fiber" or can you deal with a lambda?  Can
> > you supply tuned optics for the passive mux carriers?
> >
> > Dark coast-to-coast is going to cost you a few appendages.  You may land
> > a lambda for a reasonable price depending on the endpoints, you'll need
> > an established carrier with DWDM gear on both ends.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
>
>
>

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