Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 12/27/24 09:21, Mike Hammett wrote:
> It seems like the bulk of the responses are assuming a point-to-point service. What about aggregation of smaller services? I 
> don't necessarily mean aggregation of hundreds of sub 1 gig circuits, but when you need more than 10 gig, your next step is 
> needing a hundred, even if it's far away. You can only fit so many SLAed multi-gig services on a 10 gig port. This becomes a 
> big deal when cross connects are as expensive as they are

That is logical, yes. My experience has been the backhaul provider 
either does not have a 100G NNI product, or will require your kidney for 
them to deploy one. This is, of course, before they look at what their 
network will require to support that kind of transport, if you grow.

I have also found that internal product and business development teams 
are happy to have a 100G NNI with a backhaul provider, but they assume 
the cost of a 100G port is the same as that of a 10G port. When they 
realize it's not, their business case falls apart.

So not unheard of, sure... but a few more bits that need to be ironed 
out, I've found, both internally and with your backhaul provider.

Mark.