Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

Wed Mar 14 12:41:39 UTC 2012

Is that is needed, what is wrong with that ?

Isn't MPLS a form of encapsulation ? Don't the enterprise folks run routing protocols on it ?

With carriers today it is very common to deliver L2 connectivity over L3 networks.

One does not have to like it...and just because someone else (upstream) does it for one, it does not mean it is wrong......just the nature of networks and growth, solving problems with the available set of tools...

Faisal

On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:40 AM, chris <tknchris at gmail.com> wrote:

> next lets encapsulate bgp over http next so we can run bgp at wifi hotspots
> :)
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
> 
>> One possible avenue is put a router/computer in a colo and build a GRE
>> tunnel over your FiOS connection to the data center, and then "peer" with
>> folk there.
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:streiner at cluebyfour.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:27 PM
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
>> 
>> All:
>> 
>> I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to
>> determine if Verizon will speak BGP with FiOS business customers.  Their
>> website is relatively lean on details.  Everything that mentions BGP
>> points to VZB services, which does not appear to include FiOS.  Looking at
>> the routing table, I do see several non-VZ ASNs downstream of AS19262, so
>> it looks like it might be possible.
>> 
>> If that is the case, could anyone lend any insight to get past the "what
>> is BGP?" response that likely awaits from their salescritters?
>> 
>> jms
>> 
>> 
>> 
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