[50759] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@radianz.com)
Thu Aug 8 12:18:23 2002
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: michael.dillon@radianz.com
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:16:29 +0100
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Given that your analysis could be used to make decisions about exchange
point architecture, I wonder if you would consider adding RPR IEEE 802.17
into the mix?
While I don't know of anyone using RPR in an exchange point, there
certainly are products on the market and not just Cisco's SRP/DPT. Within
Ebone we were using SRP/DPT rings quite successfully in our PoP
architecture, i.e. it does work in the real world. I know that the
marketing side of RPR is promoting it as a metro area solution, but it
works just as well in a PoP. Given that you are comparing a PoP oriented
technology (Ethernet) with a metro area technology (ATM), I think it makes
sense to take a serious look at a technology that covers both.
--Michael Dillon
