[mikeey2]

Had Virgin out to site yesterday, as looking at site to site links and they have quoted on IPVPN solution, but the Quote contains the following;

thought it might be of interest..


Virgin Media Business have recently launched Cable Modem access into IPVPN, providing unparalleled cost effective connectivity where available. Running over the Virgin Media local infrastructure, it provides carrier diversity for ADSL services at comparable cost. We will provision a Cisco 1921 router to terminate the Cable Modem service which is capable of supporting the 50Mb Cable Modem service.

As Cable Modem has not completed full testing for voice and IP multimedia services currently, it is proposed to use Cable Modem for data and ADSL with Real time 1 QoS for voice services. It is expected in due course when tested and ratifies that the cable modem service would be re-configured for voice services. VMB will install a hybrid fibre coax cable to the premises, on the end of which we will install a cable modem. An L2TP tunnel is established between the cable modem and the broadband access router which marks edge of the IPVPN network. An Ethernet port on the cable modem is provided for connection of the customer premises router.

In a similar fashion to our IPVPN ADSL service, we will support traffic prioritisation at ‘edge’ and not in the shared broadband network. #Edge# means the customer premises router, for outbound traffic, and the broadband aggregation router in the network, for traffic in-bound to the site.

Cable Modem is subject to availability and full site survey.

Speed
30Mbps (3Mbps upstream) and 50Mbps (5Mbps up) will be available

SLA
Fix SLA 20 hours
Availabilty 99.80%