CCDE Study Guide

Chapter 5. Service Provider Network Architecture Design

One of the common design questions is this: What is the difference between designing an enterprise network versus service provide network? Technically, both types of networks are entitled to use the same Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies and protocols. The design principles with regard to each type of these networks can vary to some extent; however, due the fact that the goal of service provider (SP) business almost always is to provide transit connectivity services such as interconnecting the dispersed sites of their customers across the SP core infrastructure (providing WAN services) or providing transit path to reach the Internet and to reach services in the cloud, either hosted by the ...