I am pleased to announce that 702 Communications confirmed that July 11
works for them hosting UG 28:
MICE User Group 28
July 11, 3:00pm
702 Main Ave, Moorhead, MN
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Richard
The following is from Ryan Goldberg of Compudyne:
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Compudyne/AS47096 is interested in operating a MICE remote switch in Duluth.
We have two 10G paths from 511 to Duluth (one on Charter, one on
Enventis) in a ring of 5 Juniper MX boxes (2 at 511, 3 in Duluth – the 3
in Duluth are interconnected over dark fiber). We hit a little over 5G
on 5min averages in total between the two 511<->Duluth legs. Latency is
4-5ms.
We currently participate in MICE via MNVoip’s extension, mainly because
it makes more overall sense to pick up MICE + SIX + Denver + KC all on
one interface (for now). We’d probable leave it like that for a while.
For the proposed extension switch we’d do a two site VPLS config on the
MXes, with on a fresh, dedicated 10gig port at 511 and corresponding
10gig port in Duluth. We’d start with an EX4200-24F in Duluth, and run
the usual Juniper-y stuff (from http://micemn.net/technical.html)
Initial participants would only be on 1gig ports on the 4200.
As for location, we’re currently leaning toward “the Missabe Building”
at 227 W 1st St, Duluth, MN – this is our primary downtown Duluth POP,
and aside from our fiber, and there’s high-count fiber from at least 5
other carriers in the building. The space has dual AC and is backed by
generator power.
Upgrade path is 100G 511<->Duluth, at least on one leg. If business
drives it, we’ll just do it. Otherwise it’s budgeted for next year. As
for the switch, we’d move to a ex4550.
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Without taking any position on this here yet, I'd like to highlight a
couple of facts:
The proposed transport is over a VPLS link (i.e. shared with other
traffic, not a dedicated wave).
In the past, and quite possibly still, we have had participants
connected over shared links, but not entire remote switches.
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Richard
I woke up this morning to see emails about our BGP sessions with MICE to be down. Look at alarms and graphs I see that the link from Belle Plaine to MICE is down since about 12:39 am.
According to the NeutralPath NOC (operated by WINS?), something about how a temporary fiber fix for emergency fiber work failed? I wasn't even aware of any emergency fiber work. The NOC said that a tech was dispatched and he was hoping they would be able to fix it in the next few hours.
Frank
