Sooo... as I said, people with 10GigEs and 100GigEs going between single nodes... not dozens of people on 4 meg PMP100 APs where you're trying to scavenge every bit possible.
Apples and oranges, Mark. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Radabaugh via Af" <af@afmug.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:16:08 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ISP Radio Wednesday -- Bridged vs Routed This is where the majority of large carriers are going: http://metroethernetforum.org/carrier-ethernet/carrier-ethernet-services If you are buying (or selling) services to any of the larger carriers you are likely seeing MEF standards in use - Ethernet Virtual Connections, NNI and UNI interfaces. There are a lot of really nice features in MEF that allow you to sell protocol independent Ethernet across your network or across multiple networks. Something like a point to point where Time Warner is one end and your customer is on the other end. Or a PMP type of arrangement where 2 customers are on Comcast, 3 are on AT&T, and 4 are your wireless customers. To the customer it just appears as if the 9 sites are connected via an Ethernet switch and you don't care in the least what addressing or protocols they run. If you are selling to any of the cell carriers they expect MEF services and specifically Y.1731 performance monitoring. This allows you and your customers to prove that you are actually providing the bandwidth, latency, jitter, and uptime. MEF adds a great deal of monitoring and troubleshooting capability to the network. It allows you to monitor end to end and within your own network in order to identify both to you and your partners where a problem exists and who is responsible for it. -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex m...@amplex.net 419.837.5015 x 1021
