[AusNOG] Carrier aggregation port redundancy

[Chad Kelly]

On 8/18/2015 1:47 PM, Chad Kelly wrote:
> 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.
>>   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.
>>   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.
>>   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.
>>   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.
>
>

fixed the subject line, forgot the dam thing doesn't update automatically.

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