MPLS acceptable latency?

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Thu Nov 15 19:16:14 UTC 2012


On Nov 15, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Mikeal Clark wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I have some AT&T MPLS sites under a managed contract with latency
> averaging 75-85 ms without any load.  These sites are only 45 minutes
> away.  What is considered normal/acceptable?

MPLS as a technology should not add any significant delay as it is just a few bytes of label on the packet.

What is the physical path of the circuits involved?  Have you asked for the design of them?

- Jared



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