[44517] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS in metro access networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Siegel)
Fri Nov 30 14:35:09 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:34:37 -0700
From: Dave Siegel <dave@siegelie.com>
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:17:30PM -0500, Leo Bicknell reportedly typed:
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 05:27:15PM -0700, Dave Siegel wrote:
> > That being said, I would love to see some quantifiable data showing the
> > differences in switching latencies between labels and packets. %age increase
>
> If there is a difference in latency between MPLS and IP switching
> you need to beat your vendor, and/or change vendors.
If there is a difference, I would expect it to be in the order of low,
single-digit microseconds.
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