[32636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is MPLS based VPN really feasible in real world situation?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tiernan ray)
Tue Dec 5 10:21:46 2000
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:24:23 -0500
From: tiernan ray <tiernan@tiernan.net>
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I don't mean to intrude, as I'm a journalist who lurks, not a carrier
representative. But I thought I'd point out that at last week's "IP Over WDM"
conference in Paris, Giles Heron, of Level 3 Communications, remarked that the
company has MPLS running in its Juniper M160 routers and that the firm has been
running MPLS VPNs in London for six months. Heron remarked the gating factor at
this point is getting the firm to price such a service for commercial deployment,
and, on the technical side, the service can not be run out to the edge of the
network until there is compatibility between Juniper and Cisco's respective label
distribution protocol (LDP) software. Once this happens, Giles expects the
company will try to run MPLS across the entire network between the Juniper
switches and Cisco 7500 routers.
I'm not really qualified to assess any of this information, but thought I'd offer
it to the group since I came across it at the conference.
Tiernan Ray
Journalist
SmartMoney.com
tiernan@tiernan.net
Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > Hi Nanog,
> >
> > We've noticed that Global one has already begin to sell its MPLS based VPN,
> > but we heard the Cisco people says that MPLS can't be widely deployed. Does
> > anyone know any further detail of Global one's MPLS based VPN, is it real?
> > Any additional operational cost than traditional VPN ?
>
> Err. who from Cisco said it can't be widely deployed?
>
> --
> Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm
> Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
> "I speak for myself only."
