Re: Why VPLS

Thanks to all of you for your feedback.

thanks
Syed
CCIE R&S

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Ramanpreet Singh
<sikandar.raman_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I am working with Qwest and using VPLS day in day out on Alcatel platform.
> Before we went to VPLS, we were using legacy Ethernet/Spanning tree kind of
> a topology. There were many services for which we had to say no to our
> customers.
>
> With the advent of VPLS we are offerin transparent point to multipoint
> services with QinQ tunneling and what not. Customers have a better fault
> redundant services. VPLS to them is more or less transparent but the benefit
> is that they are getting fault redundant protected transparent services
> where they can pass Spanning tree BPDU's,CDP,QOS and all the services
> without interfering with our core services.
>
> HTH
> Raman
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM, <Keegan.Holley_at_sungard.com> wrote:
>
>> Layer-2 WAN in a single broadcast domain.
>> The ability to use a single subnet for the entire WAN network, much like a
>> fully meshed frame relay network
>> no need to run routing protocols with the provider or involve them in
>> network changes
>> native support for broadcasts over a WAN topology
>>
>> All of these can be reasons to go to VPLS.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Keegan
>>
>>
>> From:
>> Syed Ali <testcricket_at_gmail.com>
>> To:
>> Cisco certification <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
>> Date:
>> 08/10/2009 06:26 AM
>> Subject:
>> Why VPLS
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>>
>>
>>
>> Hello All,
>> Can anyone tell as what customer applicaitons will require
>> VPLS and how does it benefit them as against L-3 VPNs
>> thanks
>> Syed
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