Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/28/24 00:31, Mike Hammett wrote: *nods* for PtP, I agree. As a buyer (and a seller) waves, waves, waves. As a seller, it's less stuff for me to manage. As a buyer, I don't have to trust you on oversubscribing a wave because you can't. You can oversubscribe the hell out of an Ethernet

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-27 Thread Mike Hammett
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2024 10:28:02 AM Subject: Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My! These days, it's a LOT easier to get dedicated ethernet wave service between A and Z than it used to be. The pseudowire options were developed to fill that gap that customers wanted. Still certa

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/27/24 18:28, Tom Beecher wrote: These days, it's a LOT easier to get dedicated ethernet wave service between A and Z than it used to be. The pseudowire options were developed to fill that gap that customers wanted. Still certainly use cases for it, but generally the dedicated waves

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-27 Thread Tom Beecher
These days, it's a LOT easier to get dedicated ethernet wave service between A and Z than it used to be. The pseudowire options were developed to fill that gap that customers wanted. Still certainly use cases for it, but generally the dedicated waves are much easier to get and probably cheaper. Th

RE: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG
The average subscriber consumes 1.5Mbps in a busy hour (even for the GE access). 100GE is 60k subscribers. Many access regions just do not have enough subscribers to justify 100GE. Some regions have. Ed/ From: NANOG On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Friday, December 27, 2024 05:35 To: NANOG Subje

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/27/24 09:21, Mike Hammett wrote: It seems like the bulk of the responses are assuming a point-to-point service. What about aggregation of smaller services? I don't necessarily mean aggregation of hundreds of sub 1 gig circuits, but when you need more than 10 gig, your next step is ne

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/27/24 05:27, Edwin Mallette wrote: They’re out there.  I’ve helped stand up carriers recently that sell them and have also bought such service from other carriers.  At least for 100G. I haven’t seen 400G Ethernet point to point services but also have not been asked to engineer to s

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Mike Hammett
It seems like the bulk of the responses are assuming a point-to-point service. What about aggregation of smaller services? I don't necessarily mean aggregation of hundreds of sub 1 gig circuits, but when you need more than 10 gig, your next step is needing a hundred, even if it's far away. You c

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/27/24 04:34, Mike Hammett wrote: A few years back, every Tom, Dick, and Harry was touting MPLS or Carrier Ethernet NNIs with 10G ports everywhere. They still are. However, I rarely have seen that graduate to 100G ports and I don't think I've seen anyone talk about 400G ports. Is the

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/27/24 05:15, Jason Bothe via NANOG wrote: I’m thinking there is not a a wide market for them, not to mention last mile support. Folks that need 100 or 400 ports typically want point to point and at that juncture, wavelength or IPoDWDM makes sense as more than likely these are going b

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Edwin Mallette
Carrier Ethernet, Oh My! Since 2023, we’ve (GVTC) been migrating our CBH MTSO handoffs and partner ENNI’s from 1g/10g to 100g. …moving off older ME3600’s, ASR9k’s and ACX5048’s, to newer MX series (204,304,240,480,960) Aaron On Dec 26, 2024, at 8:35 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:  A few years

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Aaron1
Since 2023, we’ve (GVTC) been migrating our CBH MTSO handoffs and partner ENNI’s from 1g/10g to 100g.  …moving off older ME3600’s, ASR9k’s and ACX5048’s, to newer MX series (204,304,240,480,960)AaronOn Dec 26, 2024, at 8:35 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:A few years back, every Tom, Dick, and Harry was t

Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

2024-12-26 Thread Jason Bothe via NANOG
I’m thinking there is not a a wide market for them, not to mention last mile support. Folks that need 100 or 400 ports typically want point to point and at that juncture, wavelength or IPoDWDM makes sense as more than likely these are going between data centers and not to your average enterprise pr