[28573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optical Crossconnects and IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon May 8 17:03:09 2000
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 13:59:46 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Message-Id: <200005082059.NAA22272@kitty.kotovnik.com>
To: akyol@pluris.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> ** Disclaimer; I work for a vendor: PLURIS, but this question concerns a
> personal curiosity that I have about OXCs. **
Disclaimer: I do not work for a vendor: PLURIS
> I also don't
> see much NSP participation in the relevant standards bodies about signaling
> in optical networks.
Probably because the said standards bodies (and on-demand fiber capacity
allocation in general) have little relevance to the NSPs and Internet
backbones in general?
--vadim
PS I keep wondering why people keep reinventing virtual circuits.
