[afnog] Need help on Disaster Recovery Site Setup

[Mark Tinka]

On Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:57:28 PM Kondie Masiye 
wrote:

> I don't know about where you are,...

Malaysia... :-)

> but where I am, we
> often find that we cannot offer a customer a l2vpn
> service because the customers seem not to understand the
> concept very well.

Customers don't need to understand the details about l2vpn. 
Functionally, it's not different from purchasing a classic 
leased line from their friendly telco.

You don't often hear customers asking their telco's how 
their network is strung together for them to get their 
leased line up. Yes, some customers will be interested. Most 
won't.

> And because of this, we have major
> issues with resolving WAN connectivity problems with the
> customers when they occur with l2vpns. So we prefer to
> just offer l3vpns.

If you're talking about OAM issues, there are good open 
standard solutions available for l2vpn's, inherent in vendor 
solutions, e.g., Cisco, Juniper, e.t.c. There's no reason 
for you to operate the network blindly.

Mark.
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