[40367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS VPNs or not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Aug 7 21:28:02 2001
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:25:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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The point is very simple - virtual circuit routing does not scale. That
was beaten to death in ATM vs IP discussions years ago.
Do we need to repeat that again?
http://www.kotovnik.com/~avg/pluris/ip_vs_atm/
--vadim
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> 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."
>
