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migration from Frame Relay to MLPS
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| larkspur 2005-03-21, 4:44 pm |
| Has anyone migrated from Frame-Relay to MPLS ?
If so how was you experience?
What carrier did you decided on? | |
| Just Visiting 2005-03-22, 6:37 am |
| Doing tests soon with MCI, but looks like we will migrate even though our plans aren't firm yet on implementation.
-JV | |
| larkspur 2005-03-22, 11:31 am |
| Did you look at Sprint or AT&T?
Are you finding a need to upgrade IOS on older routers(1600's and 2500's)?
Are you using\plan to use COS\QOS?
I have meet wit hall 3 of them adn currently laying out a prosoal to move 190= sites from Frame Relay, if the client likes the opyions, of course. | |
| Just Visiting 2005-03-23, 6:21 am |
| We have no older routers deployed and are even retiting the 2611s, 2621s and 3640s because Cisco support is stopping on them soon.
MPLS will only be a small backup circuit for us as we have been using DMVPN as a primary.
I don't know anything about Sprint, but don't like AT&T's automated support. It was really hard to get a live tech on the phone during outages. Guess I had been spoiled by MCI.
-JV | |
| larkspur 2005-03-23, 10:24 am |
| Sprint seems to have a solid MPLS network, using sonet as thier backbone. AT&T is the only carrier with a true MPLS core, which I found interesting.
With DMVPN are using a flavor of DSL to establish connectivity? If so are you getting a SLA from your DSL provider?
You guys must have a huge network to use MPLS as a back up. | |
| Just Visiting 2005-03-24, 6:40 am |
| No we tried using the local ISPs but the quality and service just wasn't good enough for business so we are using internet T1s from MCI (UUnet).
We have about 250 remote sites, so it's pretty big.
-JV | |
| larkspur 2005-03-24, 10:53 am |
| We are also considering a managed solution from one of the carriers. I am not looking forward to that as I have concenrated on WAN technology, so that would suck for me.
Did you guys have to deal with a similar issue? If so how did you get around that? | |
| darthfeces 2005-03-24, 2:19 pm |
| yes, i have to say uunet always answers the phone.
at&t i need an act of congress to get on the phone.
if i bounce my serials or bgp enough i can get them to call me !!! |
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