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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...
On 2/6/06, Rich Sena <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to cut a few financial corners in our remote site budgets. I *insert network crash noises here* > have sites that are homed back to the main campus offices via ATM and > other leased lines. These sites also currently have dedicated Internet > access. I was doing some brain cramming re: MPLS and possibly killing > our dependence on ATM by going the MPLS route over a common provider. It > struck me to venture a guess as to why I couldn't utilize the same > connection for both - Internet transit via the common provider as well as > an MPLS mesh between all my sites and my main campuses also via that same > connection with the common provider... Wouldn't this be something similar to frame relay? If I understand MPLS correctly, this should be a fairly simple implementation ... > If you feel this is OT then reply to me direct if there is other interest > I will summarize... I'm interested in responses to this ... MPLS is still a four letter word .. :) > -- > Rich Sena - [email protected] -- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold [email protected]
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