Hi,
a customer in Bern was scheduled to move to a new location (outside of the city). They have arranged in advance for connectivity, notably a leased line to a foreign country to the company's HQ with another company (I was not involved with that).
However, it seems the new leased line will be delayed for some reason, so the customer and I proposed, as an emergency plan, an alternative emergency plan using temporary ADSL links and VPNs.
The ADSL links are apparently functionnal and ready, one problem less.
However, the bandwidth offered by this emergency temporary solution may be insufficient (I don't have the figures yet, but I am worried).
Is there a way to very quickly set up a leased line or equivalent between the old site (Bern) and the new site (around Bern) at say 2 MBps symmetric ? Quickly is: should work on next tuesday.
Any small and dynamic company able to do that ? Some way to blackmail Swisscom? Use army material (faisceaux hertziens) ? :)
I am open to any (feasiable) idea!
(and sorry to use this list as a consulting source, but it seems swinog is my only source on this issue).
Hi,
Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
Is there a way to very quickly set up a leased line or equivalent between the old site (Bern) and the new site (around Bern) at say 2 MBps symmetric ? Quickly is: should work on next tuesday.
Do you have a direct path visibility between the 2 sites ? What length ?
Best regards,
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:39:26PM +0200, Bernard Dugas wrote:
Do you have a direct path visibility between the 2 sites ? What length ?
Unfortunately, there is no way to do that.
Thank you for the people having answered already, I think we are on the path to a solution. I will try to post a summary next week.
Hi,
so apparently the leased line is now functionnal. It was scheduled to be ready a few weeks ago and was fixed eventually this week-end.
I promised a summary -- it will not include any company names nor individual prices (on request from the individual companies).
So basically, we first checked the availability of Swisscom E1s. The given delay was unfortunately too tight for that purpose. Then I investiguated more dynamic proposals from smaller companies (small is beautiful):
- wiring army-style between two blocks
- wireless connections in Bern-city
- VPN over the Internet
The delays given were really short, but it could have worked as an emergency solution.
On friday at noon(*), I had a complete solution, involving two ISPs, the Internet and a VPN (probably with GNU/Linux boxes running OpenVPN, possibly in bridging mode or proxy-arp because I couldn't get hands on the current router passwords), total about 12'000 CHF -- just for one month, duh! :)
The customer found this to be an acceptable plan B solution, but informed me today that fortunately for them the LL is now ok.
Thank you for your help! I hope the experience and contacts gained will be of some use in the future on other projects. I have already proposed the customer to consider having a fail-over solution for its LL.
(*) On friday evening, unfortunately one of the two ISPs stepped back of the solution, this might have rendered the whole concept difficult, but I then found a possible replacement for that end.
Hey Folks,
I am looking for Cisco NPE-225, please drop me a line if you happen to have one which you could part with.
Thanks!
Kirill
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