[127966] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "vpn exchange point"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William McCall)
Wed Jul 21 16:04:56 2010
In-Reply-To: <47A1DD08-7CC0-4DF2-A557-77C956159C6B@pch.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:59:32 -0500
From: William McCall <william.mccall@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
OP is referencing MPLS/BGP VPNs, not like IPsec VPNs. And I'm not sure
that I've (personally) ever heard of an IXP for MPLS. The question
really is... does it make sense for carriers to create an MPLS/BGP VPN
sort of internet? I'd vote probably not in their immediate interests.
--WM
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
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> On Jul 21, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam wrote:
>> Do you know of any "vpn exchange point" implementations please? -I mean =
something like IXP but for mpls vpns
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> That would be like an IXP but for email. =A0Or an IXP but for web traffic=
. =A0VPNs are an application that run over IP, and IXPs are interconnection=
locations for IP traffic. =A0So you don't need to worry about what you're =
worrying about.
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> Nor, for instance, do the VoIP people. =A0Ahem.
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