[194703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Making interconnection agreements between networks more dynamic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue May 23 20:00:17 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:00:10 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
In-Reply-To: <bdadac91e2881a409c510661f484d9de@mail.dessus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> read "which is not mpls" a few more times. than maybe read a bit on
>> gmpls and optical switching. you may find
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_Multi-Protocol_Label_Switching
>> a reasonable place to start.
> Ok, but does this still not pre-suppose that an appropriate physical
> path that has sufficient available bandwidth/slots is already present?
not *a* physical path, but a swath of paths from which sufficient
capacity can be configured. sadly, gmpls over optical has not yet
defied the laws of physics.
randy
