Peter van Oene wrote:
> 
> At 04:31 PM 7/21/2003 +0000, John Neiberger wrote:
> >Are any of you using Qwest PRN? If so, I have a few questions
> for you:
> >
> >1. How do you like it so far?
> >2. Did you migrate from something else? If so, how did the
> migration go?
> >3. Any 'gotchas' that you learned later that you wish you'd
> learned sooner?
> >4. How does the service compare to what you were using before?
> >5. How many sites do you have? Is this solution scaling well
> for you?
> 
> Hey John,
> 
> What is PRN? Private routed network? Can't seem to find much
> about it in my
> brief googling.
> 

Oops. Accidentally hit post before adding any content.  ;-)

Yes, it stands for Private Routed Network. It's a very interesting solution.
Our hub sites would participate in OSPF with their network, while our spoke
sites would use static routing. The PRN would have static routes pointing to
our spoke sites and those statics would be redistributed into OSPF.

The biggest downside to this is that we'd have to contact Qwest each time we
added a new subnet at a branch, but I suppose that just means we'd need to
plan ahead better.

This solution buys us a few things over our current frame relay network.
Each site has a full pipe into the PRN instead of multiple PVCs sharing a
single link, and we don't have to deal with CIR. From the perspective of our
routers each site is one hop away from any other site. These combination of
these features will allow us to proceed with VoIP throughout our network,
which is not feasible with the current frame relay network.

John


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