[c-nsp] Metro E best practices

[Richey]

Wow, I bet that made you feel strong and powerful.  I did some searches but
most everything I keep turning up is marketing speak.  As to re-tasking some
routers that are no longer in use, are you kidding me?  Am I the only one
that finds it wasteful to take a perfectly good box and change it's role?
Shame on us for not spending money like a dot bomb...

I was looking for some best practices, not how to do it,  hence the "Best
Practices" and not "How do I setup a metro e from scratch?"

"Not only are you advertising your one-and-only wholesaler"

It does not take rocket science to figure out if a provider is using the LEC
as their Metro E transport.  

Richey

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:steve at ibctech.ca] 
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 11:45 PM
To: Richey
Cc: 'Cisco Mailing list'
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Metro E best practices

Richey wrote:
> We are a small provider that's going to start offering access to customers
> over AT&T's Premium Metro E product.    Can someone share some best
> practices and maybe some config pointers?  I've not make a decision on
what
> router to use on our end that we will bring remote sites back to.   I have
> some 3660s and 7206s that are doing nothing and thought one of the two
would
> make a decent router to start with.   

Heh. Seriously?

Not only are you advertising your one-and-only wholesaler, but you are
asking for configuration help on devices "that are doing nothing" for
use as infrastructure gear.

This is what I heard you say:

- I'm an ISP
- I don't know what I'm doing
- pay me money to connect, I have a good upstream
- my hardware is used, but since I don't know how to work it, it's even
more useless than it normally would be

There are many, many best practises, many which will turn up in the
archives.

I'm sure you are interested in tra......

...forget it. I try too hard and get nowhere, and then have ISPs pop up
everywhere who just don't seem to care.

Steve

ps. If you really do care and I mistook your blob of a message for
something else, I apologize.