[45025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Adoption of MPLS in the Enterprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesper Skriver)
Thu Jan 10 16:41:19 2002
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:40:18 +0100
From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To: Lee Watterworth <lwatterworth@rim.net>
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:40:02PM -0500, Lee Watterworth wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> MPLS has been in use at providers for a number of years.
>
> Does anyone have experience with MPLS adoption at the enterprise level? For
> what reasons was it deployed?
The same reasons service providers do it - offer multiple L3 networks on
the same physical infrastruture, also known as MPLS L3 VPN's
At least that's the deployments I've seen.
/Jesper
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