[115787] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Point to Point Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Jul 9 03:11:51 2009
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:11:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <70D072392E56884193E3D2DE09C097A91F427B@pascal.zaphodb.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> There's plenty of fiber in the ground. Light dark stuff with the new
> network, plug it into IEEE 802* compliant layer 2, and IETF compliant
> layer 3 infrastructure; and leave the dying Bellcore/ITU network on the
> old copper and SONET.
Have you built an nationwide greenfield network based on dark fibre and
ethernet? I have.
Don't misrepresent the problems that might arise from this. It
might be easier to do compared to a SONET network, but it's still a can of
worms and you definitely want a lot of the "bellhead" stuff you're
ridiculing.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se