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The cost of the GE modules that are capable of doing this are much lower than oc48 type interfaces for a router. If someone is building a cheap network (see rfc1925) it may not be their first choice to do so but what is forced upon them. - jared On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:19:21AM -0800, Jon Mansey wrote: > > Sorry if this is a naive question, but why would you want to do layer 2 > over WAN distances anyways? Whats wrong with good old SONET, IP and > routing? Do you have non-IP protocols to haul? > > jm > > On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 09:02 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Greg Pendergrass wrote: > >> > >>Absolutely right, I don't care what's in between as long as I have GigE > >>at > >>the end. Other options include using wave (too expensive), or ethernet > >>over > >>MPLS (worth considering although latency may be too high for longer that > >>1000 miles). > > > >Why would latency be too high? Just talk to one of the carriers who do > >everything over MPLS, I'm sure they're more then interested in selling > >some kind of "VPN services" (well someone in the company is at any rate, > >most sales people would be flatly stumped and are more concerned with > >trying to keep their jobs than finding you cheap longhaul anyways). > > > >You might want to try isp-bandwidth, it's a list more suited for finding > >specific services you can buy and specific sales weenies who will try and > >sell it to you. I know I've seen the GigE long-haul transport subject come > >up a couple time there... > > > >-- > >Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > >PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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