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Applications for Interconnecting a Layer 2 Circuit with a Layer 2 Circuit
MPLS-based Layer 2 services are growing in demand among enterprise and service providers. This creates new challenges for service providers who want to provide end-to-end value-added services. There are various reasons to stitch different Layer 2 services to one another and to Layer 3 services, for example, to expand the service offerings and to expand geographically. The Junos OS has various features to address the needs of the service provider.
Interconnecting a Layer 2 circuit with a Layer 2 circuit includes the following benefits:
- Interconnecting a Layer 2 circuit with a Layer 2 circuit enables the sharing of a service provider's core network infrastructure between Layer 2 circuit services, reducing the cost of providing those services. A Layer 2 MPLS circuit allows service providers to create a Layer 2 circuit service over an existing IP and MPLS backbone.
- Service providers do not have to invest in separate Layer 2 equipment to provide Layer 2 circuit service. A service provider can configure a provider edge router to run any Layer 2 protocol. Customers who prefer to maintain control over most of the administration of their own networks want Layer 2 circuit connections with their service provider instead of a Layer 3 VPN connection.
