Arista Backbone MPLS TE

I'm interested in talking with folks who are using Arista for Backbone MPLS TE. Please contact me privately. Thanks! -- Alan Hannan 408-692-5268

Console Servers

I'd like your input on suggestions for an alternate serial port manager. Long ago I used Cisco 2511/2611 and was fairly happy. A little later I used portmaster and was less so. Recently I've been using Opengear and they work fairly well but the price is fairly high. I use the CM7100 and IM7100

overages for power usage

What kind of typical overage costs have you seen when a customer/you use more than you've committed to? I'm especially interested in datacenter power situations, where maybe you sign up for 5kw or 500kw and use more than that in a given month. Is it billed at the same rate? Is it billed at a hig

Re: 10-GigE for servers

The 10G cards from Neterion (http://www.neterion.com/products/xframeE.html) perform extremely well. Much of your potential limiting rate will be in the CPU and networking resources. I agree with many of the other folks that etherchannel should work exceedingly well, but if you want to conso

Re: Bandcon

In a former life, I used Bandcon for point to point transport between POPs. We did not use them for IP Transit. I found Bandcon to be professional, responsive, and their technical design and delivery quality very high. Problems were extremely rare, and when they occurred they were dealt with prom

Re: IXP

A solution I put in place at UUnet circa 1997 was to take a set of /32 routes representing major destination, e.g. ISP web sites, content sites, universities, about 20 of them, and temporarily place a /32 static route to each participant at the public exchange and traceroute to the destinatio