seanb
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West Palm Beach, FL
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Re: Is this possible??
Not exactly understanding why you'd want to use OC-x circuits?!? SONET (while reliable) it quite expensive.... You can pull in Metro Ethernet for about 1/3 of the price of SONET technologies... and it scales up to 1gb with the click of a mouse...
plus ME, has MUCH greater native VLAN flexibilities, especially if you want to have a hub-and-spoke configuration (meaning the building would feed into a datacenter or multiple buildings fed by one datacenter).
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RockyBB
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join:2005-01-31
Longmont, CO
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this is like renting an apartment with a couple roommates. if you are the mastermind, be aware that if one of the tenants stiffs you on their rent, the carrier won't care. If someone else is the mastermind, if they take your money and don't pay the ISP bill, you are SOL.
Additionally, the mastermind will be responsible for all maintenance and repair activities on the circuit ... the ISP most likely will not be interested in speaking with any of the tenants to open trouble tickets ... so you'll need policies and procedures for reporting troubles during both business hours and off hours. |
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fatmanskinny
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said by aryoba  :As mentioned, a managed switch will do all that from the bandwidth allocation (QoS) and separating lines (VPLS or the likes). Will this OC-12 be point-to-point circuit between two locations? Or will it be joining existing network? OC12 will be strictly an internet circuit which will be split between x amount of companies in the same building. It is cheaper if all the companies go in together instead of getting separate internet connections.
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cooldude9919
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Cape Girardeau, MO
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As everyone has said a managed switch could do this. If you need more routing capabilities then you could do vlans and with a cisco router do zone-based firewalling and class-maps/policy-maps for the QoS stuff. |
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aryoba
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join:2002-08-22 | reply to fatmanskinny
As mentioned, a managed switch will do all that from the bandwidth allocation (QoS) and separating lines (VPLS or the likes).
Will this OC-12 be point-to-point circuit between two locations? Or will it be joining existing network? |
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fatmanskinny
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Actually, I made a correction. I meant to say where the companies cannot tap into each other's bandwidth and allocate the bandwidth so it appears as coming from separate networks.
...don't know if that will change your answer.
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LBDSL
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Auburn Hills, MI | reply to fatmanskinny
A managed switch could do what you want. |
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fatmanskinny
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1 edit |  Buy an OC12 line (622MB). Then, allocate a certain amount of bandwidth across multiple companies within the same location. For example, Company A will have up to 62MB Up/down available, Company B will have up to 30MB Up/Down, etc.
We would also want to secure the line so the companies can't "tap into" each other's bandwidth or lines while providing each company with separate networks.
I hope it is understood in terms of where I am going. Thanks.
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