Talk:Virtual Private LAN Service

vs VLAN, VPN
This page doesn't make clear the distinction between a VPLN, VLAN or a VPN. Regards, Ben Aveling 01:31, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

vs L2TPv3, VPLS
I would disagree about L2TPv3 only being for point-to-point tunnels...I've personally bridged vlans across datacenters for customer migrations using this protocol —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pwohlers (talk • contribs) 03:24, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

LDP auto-discovery capability
More detail is needed regarding to whether LDP method has the functions of auto-discovery. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rydeman (talk • contribs) 13:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

VPLS vs MPLS
What is the difference between an MPLS and VPLS?

EVCS and TLS
Why doesn't this page mention EVCS (Ethernet Virtual Connection Services) and TLS (Transparent LAN Services)? The Wiki article "Virtual network" (redirected from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN,_VPN_and_VPLS) mentions these technologies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.112.86.51 (talk) 16:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Advantages and disadvantages of P2P, P2MP and MP2MP (aka VPLAN, any-to-any, E-LAN)
We recently selected MetroEthernet to connect together 4 sites in a Metropolitian area.

When given the choice of either Point to MultiPoint (MP2P) or any-to-any (MP2MP), I chose any-to-any as it apparently seemed to provide resiliance in case of a power cut when the main site suffered a major power or network failure (with MP2P, it appears that the main site would act as the hub and the other sites as the spokes, and all traffic would need to be routed via the main site).

The service is currently being installed, it has taken a lot longer to get installed than we had expected, but that is another story.

But now I am wondering about the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two topologies. I saw a table online which showed what applications are suitable for each and there was no tick against using Voice with MP2MP.

What impact does chossing any-to-any have on:


 * Latency?
 * Jitter?
 * Potential for bottlekneck on the providers MetroEthernet?
 * Reliability?
 * Dropped packets?

Cost?

Also, we were going to choose 100Mbit at each site, but we were worried about a potential bottlekneck at the site where the main servers are located, so we chose 300Mbit at that site.

But I noticed on a diagram of the any-to-any service, it said "No aggregation required any any site".

Finally, there seems to be very little information out there on the net about MetroEthernet. I appreciate that there is the MetroEthernet forum, but this is owned by the providers, so therefore might not provide a completely balanced view of the technology.

Thank you, Bruce. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.39.186 (talk) 07:50, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Ethernet Emulation
I was reading this article and when I started the Ethernet Emulation section there was this word that got me intrigued : wayeader. It apparently doesn't exists in the English language so I assume someone made a mistake when the section was edited.

I'm no native english speaker nor a VPLS specialist so I won't try to edit this sentence but if someone could make it english again that would be great (:.

Here's the diff showing the edit : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual_Private_LAN_Service&action=historysubmit&diff=393570644&oldid=384871171 (between September and October '10) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.162.27.229 (talk) 18:16, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The edit deleted a lump of text and ran two words together in the process. Therefore I belive it was either a screwup or vandalism and undone it. Plugwash (talk) 15:44, 1 August 2011 (UTC)