What WAN technologies are used today?
SwedishTech
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in CCNA & CCENT
When I search for "current WAN technologies" and similar all I find is ancient articles like this one:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb962087.aspx
The most useful info I could gather this far is that Frame Relay is no longer used (kinda?). So... what WAN tech DO we use these days? The same goes for wikipedia, sure it's good to know about legacy tech too but it's kind of hard to put stuff into context as a student without knowing what is actually used today.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb962087.aspx
The most useful info I could gather this far is that Frame Relay is no longer used (kinda?). So... what WAN tech DO we use these days? The same goes for wikipedia, sure it's good to know about legacy tech too but it's kind of hard to put stuff into context as a student without knowing what is actually used today.
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winslade
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BGP!
Border gateway protocol is used for WANs - Which isn't discussed much until CCNP -
shochan
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When I was a contractor for a local ISP (till July 2016), they were converting from Frame Relay to Ethernet/MPLS devices.CompTIA A+, Network+, i-Net+, MCP 70-210, CNA v5, Server+, Security+, Cloud+, CySA+, ISC² CC, ISC² SSCP -
networker050184
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Most things are ethernet these days.An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made. -
rob42
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networker050184 wrote: »Most things are ethernet these days.
So, EoMPLS is the one to study?
Thanks.No longer an active member