Re: BFD for long haul circuit

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com>]

On 17/Jul/20 17:06, Tom Hill wrote:

> The differentiation is: consumer vs. service provider.
>
> If you're a service provider, don't buy a consumer product and hope to
> sell it on at a similar (or higher) SLA rate to other consumers; that
> way lies ruin.

I don't know of "Consumers" that buy l2vpn's. Most consumers usually go
for ADSL, FTTH or 4G... all carrying IP :-).

We have several customers that buy EoMPLS circuits from us both within
and outside of countries, and between continents. The reasons vary, but
safe to say they've been happy.

Of course, should the requirements get to 10Gbps or more, moving them
over to DWDM makes plenty of commercial sense. In my experience, trying
to provide EoMPLS transport to customers in the 6Gbps region and above,
when your backbone consists mostly of N x 10Gbps links, is just asking
for it. I'd recommend considering doing that only if one had N x 100Gbps
everywhere, including router-switch 802.1Q trunks.

Mark.