[AusNOG] AusNOG Digest, Vol 42, Issue 20

[Chad Kelly]

On 8/18/2015 12:00 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
> I agree Mark that L2TP isn?t an issue, and DSL or something is an obvious choice for a backup of a customer EVC, but I am more concerned about aggregation port redundancy, protection for our business not just some customers.
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> We already have multiple aggregation ports due to capacity requirements and the carriers preference not to go 10G, go figure, so it?s already getting complicated from that point, but really, apart from covering your own equipment failure, having redundant ports in the same DC Is a waste of money and not really an adequate DR plan for our business as far as I?m concerned.
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> We can easily split our core between geographic locations, we can take peering, transit, and L2TP handoffs for DSL and NBN stuff in multiple locations easily, but redundant geographically separated EVC/VLAN handoff for Ethernet services seems to be an unnecessary challenge for carriers, when really it should be designed into a product from the start.
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> Ordering second EVC?s would be an answer for sure, but ultimately you are doubling your cost everywhere unless you are happy for a lower speed EVC for redundancy, and with the response times and restoration times seeming to be impossible to meet for carriers lately we can?t afford to run some remote sites on low speed links for 12 hours while Telstra gets out of bed at 2am.
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> Regards
> Paul
If you haven't done so already, have a chat to the Micron21 guys and see 
what they can do for you across multiple data centres.
Regards Chad.


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Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
web www.cpkws.com.au
phone 03 9013 4853