[179346] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi-gigabit edge devices as CPE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Taht)
Thu Apr 9 10:37:39 2015
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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 07:35:40 -0700
From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Tim Raphael <raphael.timothy@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Tim Raphael <raphael.timothy@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> L3VPN hand off is the only thing I can think of from the top of my head. =
But
> then, there would be no need to have a full table unless you had customer=
s
> requesting a full table.
Well my interpretation was that IPv4 address space had become so scarce tha=
t
other methods were becoming more needed even on the high end edge networks.
>
> It sounds like the OP is looking for one device to do multiple roles wher=
e
> two/three different device types and/or sizes would fit better.
But that seems more plausible.
>
>
> On 9 Apr 2015, at 10:18 pm, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So to return this to a more rational basis - why does an edge network
> need MPLS in the first place?
>
>
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