[28575] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optical Crossconnects and IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Mumm)
Mon May 8 17:28:47 2000
Message-Id: <200005082119.QAA30267@worf.netins.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 13:59:46 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 16:19:41 -0500
From: Tony Mumm <tonym@netins.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
It seems that the goal is to apply IP packets right onto the
lambda windows. But without any ability to provide IP QoS,
it seems like a point of diminishing return.
Hop-by-hop routing is on its way out....and not soon enough.
As for reinventing the virtual circuit, I don't think we can
get much lower than this.
-tm
Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
wrote
>
>> ** 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.
