From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Tue Jul 20 2004 - 15:10:33 GMT-3
AM,
Sounds like fancy marketing terms to me. I'm sure when AT&T
says "Private Network Transport" they mean MPLS VPN, and when Quest says
"Smart PVC" they mean MPLS TE.
You might also consider optical transport from providers such as
http://www.cogentco.com/ or http://www.lightpath.net/. By using DWDM
these providers are able to offer dedicated bandwidth for very cheap.
Also, since places like Cogent actually own the SONET ring end-to-end
across the US, transport between two sites running Cogent circuits is
blazing fast.
In any case what you most want to look at is what the SLA on the
circuit is, and what provisions the provider has for when they are not
meeting the SLA.
HTH,
Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of AM
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:50 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: OT: WAN Services question
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am in the process of upgrading our WAN from point to
> point T1s, T3s to a MPLS based technology. We have
> talked to several vendors and have narrowed down to
> offerings from AT&T and Qwest comm. AT&T is offering
> us their solution which is Private Network transport
> and Qwest is offering a solution called Smart PVC.
> Both of them are MPLS based and are RFC compliant.
>
> Has anyone used the services mentioned above (Private
> Network transport from AT&T or Smart PVC from Qwest)?
> If yes, Can you please provide me with any
> experiances. I am supposed to get refrences from both
> vendors, but I think this group can provide me with
> lot more info.
>
> thanks and sorry for OT. AM.
>
>
>
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