long distance gigabit ethernet

Jon Mansey jon_mansey at verestar.com
Fri Mar 22 17:19:21 UTC 2002


Sorry if this is a naive question, but why would you want to do layer 2 
over WAN distances anyways? Whats wrong with good old SONET, IP and 
routing? Do you have non-IP protocols to haul?

jm

On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 09:02 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Greg Pendergrass wrote:
>>
>> Absolutely right, I don't care what's in between as long as I have GigE 
>> at
>> the end. Other options include using wave (too expensive), or ethernet 
>> over
>> MPLS (worth considering although latency may be too high for longer that
>> 1000 miles).
>
> Why would latency be too high? Just talk to one of the carriers who do
> everything over MPLS, I'm sure they're more then interested in selling
> some kind of "VPN services" (well someone in the company is at any rate,
> most sales people would be flatly stumped and are more concerned with
> trying to keep their jobs than finding you cheap longhaul anyways).
>
> You might want to try isp-bandwidth, it's a list more suited for finding
> specific services you can buy and specific sales weenies who will try and
> sell it to you. I know I've seen the GigE long-haul transport subject come
> up a couple time there...
>
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