[40426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS VPNs or not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Wed Aug 8 15:56:44 2001
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:55:44 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010808125544.B23951@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
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In-Reply-To: <3B717C6E.2E5B6DEC@opnsys.com>; from kloch@opnsys.com on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:52:47PM -0400
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:52:47PM -0400, Kevin Loch wrote:
> Diddn't PSInet deploy L2 switching massively throughout their network?
> What did the market decide about that? Could it be that UUNet's success
> was due to other factors? BTW, I'm not sure that #1 above was ever true
> in a large scale network.
NETCOM did it too.
I think he's got it all wrong.
Selecting the wrong technology /can/ kill you, but it's unlikely
to make you a success.
--msa
