[25499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP-Internets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bulent Yener)
Fri Oct 15 10:43:47 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:26:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bulent Yener <yener@research.bell-labs.com>
To: Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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That is confusing. Do the network operators actually
use the mpls on Label swithcing routers (LSR) now, or
the answers I am getting are for the future?
Are there any LSRs with MPLS in use anywhere?
I am trying to learn about the infrastructure currently
deployed not the one to come in the future?
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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Alan Hannan wrote:
>
> 3 bits of clarification:
>
> > Some stick MPLS in the middle ala IP/MPLS/HDLC or IP/MPLS/SONET.
>
> This was dumb. I meant, ala IP/MPLS/HDLC or IP/MPLS/PPP.
>
> A couple of folks mailed me to state that MPLS as a transport
> technology was in the future, isn't it? In fact, 2 networks
> including our own have deployed large [mostly ubiquitous]
> MPLS deployments, where most traffic runs on it, one all over,
> another in certain regions/areas.
>
> Finally, I was 'reminded' that MPLS convergence will actually
> surpass SONET w/ restoral times, on the order of << 50 ms. Really
> real soon now.
>
> -alan
>
>
