MPLS acceptable latency?

Thu Nov 15 19:50:17 UTC 2012

Your provider is likely backhauling the circuits opposite directions to PE
routers in a different geographic local than the sites.  It's time to have
a discussion with your sales engineer about the physical pathing of your
circuits and PE router locations.

When I know I have latency critical circuits, I always insist on backhaul
to the same geographic region and/or Pe.

It's unlikely the MPLS or circuits themselves have anything to do with the
latency, assuming this is T1, Ethernet, or similar.

It's possible it could be a routing issue SP side, but is not as likely as
a general pathing issue.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

>
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
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> >
> >
> > --- mikeal.clark at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Mikeal Clark <mikeal.clark at gmail.com>
> >
> > 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?
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Coast-to-coast latency is around 60-65msec, so that's high.
>
> What link speed?
>
> Perhaps he's using ISDN or a T1?
>
> Serialization delay is not to be ignored.
>
> - Jared
>
>