[15777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Mar 20 21:04:06 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 17:43:46 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@xcom.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Martin Hannigan wrote:
> ? 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.
Like IP over raw fiber. Our friendly WDM vendors would love to get rid
of SONET. SS7? What's that? ;)
--vadim
