I'm currently MPLS, but there's no reason you can't do both. You L3 your broadband customers and you VPLS your dedicated\transport customers.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gino Villarini via Af" <af@afmug.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:30:51 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ISP Radio Wednesday -- Bridged vs Routed It all depends on your vision and long term strategy…. If you are only ogint to do Internet to residential… well L3 routed is the way to do it… but if you want to to be a player on business/wholesale/carrier market, you need to go Carrier Ethernet… Gino A. Villarini President Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. www.aeronetpr.com @aeronetpr From: " af@afmug.com " < af@afmug.com > Reply-To: " af@afmug.com " < af@afmug.com > Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at 12:18 PM To: " af@afmug.com " < af@afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ISP Radio Wednesday -- Bridged vs Routed In my experience MEF related products are very popular with oldschool PSTN operators and big cellular carrier, less so with ISPs that do 100% IP. You can sell an Ethernet tunnel over MPLS just as well. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Mark Radabaugh via Af < af@afmug.com > wrote: 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
