[40361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS VPNs or not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Tue Aug 7 19:04:30 2001
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 19:04:19 -0400
From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
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>> Over time, however, this advantage disappeared. IP best-match
>> lookup chips were developed that could do a proper IP lookup at
>> full line rate for OC-48 and even OC-192.
>
> Though I appreciate your point Dave,.....
>
> Throw enough silicon at any single problem and you can solve it. The
> question is what can you do with the silicon you have at your
> disposal for a given thermal/power/cost foot print. ...
Don't misunderstand me. I am _NOT_ one of those people opposed to
MPLS! I happen to be a developer working on MPLS software, and I think
it is some very good technology.
I was only referring to Craig's statement regarding some people's
assertion that label/VC forwarding is faster than IP forwarding. I
agree with him that this assertion is not true today, although it was
true in the not-too-recent past.
Other uses of MPLS (including traffic engineering, various kinds of VPN
technologies, policies, etc.) are still very important, useful, and
desirable features.
-- David
