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Re: MPLS VPNs or not?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Tue Aug 7 11:02:59 2001

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:00:34 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:34:05PM +0100, Randy Bush wrote:
> > A PE carries only the routes needed at a specific PE depending on the VPNs
> > present at a specific PE.
> 
> and five years out, what percentage of my O(10-^6) vpn customers will have a
> branch in each of (chicago|nyc|sf|.*)?

Randy,

and how should I know? ;-).. I'm a) lacking a functional crystal ball (a magic
8 ball is my only ball shaped engineering tool) and b) they'll presumably be 
still your customers and not mine! ;-)

Seriously, what point are you trying to make?  There are several ways to 
interpret the statement.

Thanks,
Chris

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Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
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