JohnSoPA
join:2008-02-06
| Connection between US and Europe (Denmark) office
Through acquisition, we now have an office in Denmark. I have about 50 office people in Pennsylvania and about 15 office people in Denmark.
I would like to connect the two offices so that we can have a decent QOS VOIP link (we are experimenting with TrixBox and Fonality currently) as well as a 100 Mbps burstable ethernet connection, so that large file transfers, especially between our engineers, do not take unduly long.
The pure internet access bandwidth we currently have (T1 in the US office and a 8mbps/1mbps DSL connection in Denmark) is fine.
What types of connections should I be looking for? I found something called "point-to-point ethernet" from Cogent but it appears that is mainly a colo to colo offering.
Thanks,
John |
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aryoba
Premium,MVM
join:2002-08-22 | For such geographical distance and QoS constraints, your best bet is MPLS. This MPLS will be your organization's private link between two offices. |
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RockyBB
Premium
join:2005-01-31
Castle Rock, CO
| reply to JohnSoPA
said by JohnSoPA  :Through acquisition... I have about ... 15 office people in Denmark. ... I would like ...a 100 Mbps burstable ethernet connection That's hilarious! Thanks for the laugh first thing in the morning!
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JoelC707
join:2002-07-09
Tucson, AZ
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You won't get a direct point-to-point connection like you can if both offices were in the same country. MPLS would likely be your best bet but I think you have to have the same provider on both ends and the only ones that come to mind are Sprint and AT&T (I'm not even sure if either of those really do qualify, I'm just assuming). How big are the files you are looking to copy? Also what kind of budget do you have for this? 100 meg connections even here in the states is going to be pretty expensive and you are now looking at adding another country into the mix which will most certainly NOT be cheap any way you slice it. |
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