[28726] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optical Crossconnects and IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher E Kittredge)
Sun May 14 13:50:35 2000
Message-Id: <200005141743.e4EHheW09551@sss1.gwi.net>
To: Bora Akyol <akyol@pluris.com>
Cc: Tony Li <tli@procket.com>, nanog@nanog.org, craig@aland.bbn.com
Reply-To: Tony Li <tli@procket.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 May 2000 11:36:23 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 13:43:39 -0400
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@sss1.gwi.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 11 May 2000 11:36:23 -0700 Bora Akyol wrote:
>
> There is a paper from INFOCOM or SIGCOMM (I am not sure) on the modification of
> OSPF metrics for TE which formalizes what some ISPs have been doing for a
> while. This paper is somewhat interesting in the fact, it also is a human
> intervention method but does not involve MPLS at all. The paper's title is
> "Internet Traffic Engineering by optimizing OSPF Weights" by Fortz and Thorup.
I found the article by just searching for the title on
http://www.google.com. The URL I found,
http://smg.ulb.ac.be/Preprints/Fortz99_29.html
mentions it was in Infocon 2000...
And oh, yes, most definitely worth the read.
Has anyone started to apply these techiques to networks other than
AT&Ts? If so, results?
thanks,
fletcher
