[15774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Mar 20 19:02:43 1998
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@xcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803202336.PAA14765@odin.pluris.com> from "avg@pluris.com" at "Mar 20, 98 03:36:55 pm"
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:53:31 -0500 (EST)
> > Subject: IP over SONET considered harmful?
> >
> > I'd hoped that MPLS would solve this problem, but from reviewing
> > the drafts I believe that the LSRs _WILL_ decrement the TTL.
>
> I think this is a non-issue, considering that with the next generation of
> IP-only boxes ATM will become hopelessly useless.
>
> Better yet, the real big boxes are removing any need to do clustering, so
> the average number of IP hops for an NSP is going to be like 3 or 4.
>
Don't forget about ss7 bypass. It may get even better than you
can imagine at the moment.
