[28589] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optical Crossconnects and IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Mumm)
Tue May 9 10:49:18 2000
Message-Id: <200005091444.JAA03955@worf.netins.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 16:25:42 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 09:44:31 -0500
From: Tony Mumm <tonym@netins.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
wrote
>
>> Hop-by-hop routing is on its way out....and not soon enough.
>
>Worked fine for the last 20 years. Can you substantiate your
>assertion? So far all alternatives were shown to bring more
>problems than improvements.
>
I am certainly not one to forget where we came from. It
did, and will, have its place in the network.
However, more end to end knowledge is required in a converged
network. I am for one looking to ease the load of general
traffic engineering. In the giant carrier backbone, it
may be better to use your resources wisely, than to overbuild
your network.
I hear a phrase quite often "Everything is going to IP". Well,
before my phone call is on IP, I want some guarantee that its
getting from point A to point Z at the rate I'm paying for.
On the OXC front:
The usage that may become dominant, is more protocol agnostic.
The sales of point to point lambda windows makes for a pretty
cool application. This looks more to be a "carrier-to-carrier"
application. Rather than leasing dark fiber, you can just
buy a lambda to complete your ring...etc. We might finally
have a good use for all this glass going in the ground.
And before I slip too far off topic....
-tm
