[28631] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optical Crossconnects and IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Wed May 10 02:11:17 2000
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 23:08:25 -0700
Message-Id: <200005100608.XAA23448@miata.procket.com>
From: Tony Li <tli@procket.com>
To: akyol@pluris.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-reply-to: <39187805.4B298964@pluris.com> (message from Bora Akyol on Tue,
09 May 2000 13:41:41 -0700)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
| I agree that a more dynamic optical infrastructure allows an IP network
| to be established faster and better (in terms of flexibility), but I
| disagree with the point of view that expects routers to dynamically
| establish, modify and tear-down circuits to other routers on
| demand.
The key words in this sentence are "on demand". I believe that we've
demonstrated that traffic engineering is a viable and beneficial capability
in large scale IP networks. I would agree that anyone attempting to
perform traffic engineering with a very small time constant would be
pushing the technology past what is beneficial today.
Tony
