VPN or MPLS?

kc703

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We have a remote warehouse opening soon and I need a secure connection with my corporate office where the ERP system is hosted as well as VoIP phones. What would be the best option for the network? I'm also keeping the same domain for both locations so they will be authenticating through corporate as well...any other options?
 
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Never heard of them but we normally are looking international so we only deal with the big guys like att,verison,sprint etc. As long as they have good connectivity in the cities you need you will get good performance.
MPLS is guaranteed bandwidth option. It also has latency guarantee from site to site. You can't compare this with vpn over the internet. In most cases you buy a certain amount of low latency bandwidth that they ensure has no jitter end to end. You just mark your VoIP data with EF and it is the best you can get. Generally you can use high compression codecs on MPLS since you get no loss and no jitter.

If you only have 2 locations MPLS is kinda overkill. You could just buy a managed point to point circuit.
 


How would this work for a 3rd location? You mention site to site, but would this be a good option for an additional site (maybe between 2 different ISPs?)
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Not sure what you mean ISP. MPLS is private network service it is not internet but the companies that provide it generally are the same that provide internet. You generally only buy service from 1 vendor. With 3 sites they appears if each locations has a direct connection to the other...even though in the provider network it doesn't really work that way but MPLS hides the provider network.

You could buy 2 complete MPLS networks I suppose if you needed good redundancy. I know we have multiple MPLS networks at some central sites because some providers have better network coverage between come countries than others.

It gets very messy when data can get between 2 sites on multiple networks you have to tune the router metric carefully
 


Logix is providing the MPLS...my IPS is going to support and setup the network