Has anyone done any deployments in the recent past with Spectum. We have around ~70 locations in the new combined footprint and have always done a large amount of business with the legacy Charter & TWC sides. For the branch locations we had typically done just direct Internet/DIA in the past, but due to the lower cost of the EPLAN type product, we have began looking at feeding them that way and getting larger DIA circuits for at least 2 locations centrally (primary & backup for the branch).
We currently have 3 corporate office locations and 2 branch offices on it and it works really well and we have been happy. However more recently we have been made aware of some limitations that are not great from a design perspective.
- 5Gbps is the max circuit size in any legacy charter site or between any mix involving legacy TWC and legacy charter
- Apparently legacy TWC network was more "advanced" and you could do 10gbps within the legacy TWC network
- You can only do a max of 1gbps on a "backbone" location. For example we have a DR site in Phoenix and TWC has a presence at 120 E Vanburen, however because this is called a "backbone" site, you can only do 1gbps
We had honestly looked at doing 10gbps in phoenix, but the one factor would limit that to 5gbps, and now the other factor they are saying with it being a backbone site would only allow 1gbps.
Anyone else having WAN connectivity limitation issues with the new monster that is spectrum?
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