Enterprise network as an ISP with a single huge customer

Sat Jun 13 02:35:22 UTC 2015

>> i have seen a lot of this done with firewall devices and vlans.  with
>> vlans or mpls, you can make spaghetti without wires, one wheat and one
>> semolina.
> 
> oh absolutely. you can use many tools to lop off your fingers, my
> point was that things like mpls (or vlans) provide a nice other tool
> to use along with your firewalls and such.
> 
> of course you ought not willy-nilly go crazy with this, but... imagine
> if the 'hr department' were in one contiguous 'VRF' which had a
> defined set of 2-3 exit points to control access through... while
> those willy 'engineers' could be stuck in their own ghetto/VRF and
> have a different set of 2-3 exit points to control.
> 
> Expand your network over many locations and in large buildings and ...
> it can be attractive to run a 2547 network that the company is a
> 'customer' of, or so I was thinking :)

i have seen people successful with this with mpls and with vlans with
non-mpls tunnel tech (e.g. ipsec for the paranoid).  i have seen them
screw the pooch with both.  

randy