From grunion at NRAO.EDU Wed Nov 14 14:45:48 2001 From: grunion at NRAO.EDU (Gene Runion) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:45:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: [comm]2001Nov8 Qwest meeting notes Message-ID: Qwest Meeting Notes Date: 2001 Nov 8 Time: 10:30 Place: Qwest Office 8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 400 McLean VA Participants Qwest: Haris Boota Major Account Executive, Northeast Region 703-744-5051 haris.boota at qwest.com Steven Gallagher Sales Engineering Specialist 703-744-5024 steve.gallagher at qwest.com NRAO: Gene Runion Tracy Effland Purpose: This meeting served two purposes. First we wanted to establish an avenue of communications with Qwest for exploring the feasibility of connecting the VLBA sites together for real time operation. The second item discussed was our current intranet. Notes: As a starting point Gene Runion gave an overview of NRAO and the VLBA instrument by presenting Gareth Hunt's "VLBA Direct Data Connection" slides dated 3 Arp 2001. Qwest said they their backbone operates over OC192 links and their typical city loops are OC48. They currently have eight OC192 wave lengths over one fiber light. Qwest backbone was built along railroad right-aways in the mid 1990s. After they had their backbone in place they acquired US West for local access. Qwest indicated that their backbone could easily accommodate our data requirements. The problem would be provisioning fiber to their network. Qwest mentioned that they currently support networks with very high data requirements but none with as many nodes that we require. Qwest was most willing to engineer the network and provide pricing. A target date of February was set for the preliminary engineering and pricing. As a separate project Qwest will provide pricing to replace our existing frame relay network. Gene Runion gave a requirement of T1 access to all the VLBA stations and T3 access to CV, GB, AOC, & TUC. Their solution would provide VPN connections between sites with guaranteed SLA, each site would have their own internet connection and Qwest would provide firewalling. They will be able to provide pricing for this with 45 days. (I realize that the T1 and T3 access may be not be within our budget, but we do need to know these types of costs). From jrobnett at aoc.nrao.edu Wed Nov 14 15:50:12 2001 From: jrobnett at aoc.nrao.edu (James Robnett) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:50:12 -0700 Subject: [comm]2001Nov8 Qwest meeting notes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200111142050.NAA11200@zia.aoc.NRAO.EDU> I'd be interested in what they could do between here and the VLA. If Western New Mexico can do it straight through then they must be leasing lines from QWest .. in that case I assume Qwest can do it as well by leasing lines from WNM. james On Wednesday 14 November 2001 12:45 pm, Gene Runion wrote: > > As a separate project Qwest will provide pricing to replace our existing > frame relay network. Gene Runion gave a requirement of T1 access to all > the VLBA stations and T3 access to CV, GB, AOC, & TUC. Their solution > would provide VPN connections between sites with guaranteed SLA, each site > would have their own internet connection and Qwest would provide > firewalling. They will be able to provide pricing for this with 45 days. > (I realize that the T1 and T3 access may be not be within our budget, > but we do need to know these types of costs). > > _______________________________________________ > Comm mailing list > Comm at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu > http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/comm