[50770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Thu Aug 8 14:19:41 2002
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: michael.dillon@radianz.com
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 18:12:05 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF11688D95.3A1C38FD-ON80256C0F.0058C844-80256C0F.005966A6@radianz.com> from "michael.dillon@radianz.com" at Aug 08, 2002 05:16:29 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
SDR/DPT was been deployed in a couple of exchanges and is actively
being phased out for a number of reasons.
>
>
> 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
>
