[194701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Making interconnection agreements between networks more dynamic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue May 23 19:27:34 2017
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:27:29 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
In-Reply-To: <abaa270061356d47ac39d51774c675a5@mail.dessus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> to me, this was the dream of optical switching and gmpls (which is
>> not mpls)
> And, pray tell, what is the use of me setting up "peering" between
> myself and a network on the other side of the world when the data
> still has to flow over the same connections, merely encapsulated
> inside a tunnel?
read "which is not mpls" a few more times. than maybe read a bit on
gmpls and optical switching. you may find
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_Multi-Protocol_Label_Switching
a reasonable place to start.
randy
