[52426] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Economic Justification / Rationale for MPLS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ryan)
Tue Oct 1 05:28:52 2002
From: "Matt Ryan" <Matt.Ryan@telewest.co.uk>
To: "'Shannon Lake'" <shannon@omnivergent.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:27:38 +0100
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Whatever the relative technical merits of MPLS/BGP VPNs over other layer 3
VPNs (GRE, IPsec, L2TP etc) there are many service providers around the
world selling these services. There is clearly a business need for them, and
obviously customers how will buy them (well, we have managed to sell them
anyway!), so there is an economic reason to deploy MPLS.
Layer 2 based LAN extension services will only extend this market further
and again uses MPLS as its base transport mechanism.
Matt.
-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Lake [mailto:shannon@omnivergent.com]
Sent: 01 October 2002 08:26
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Economic Justification / Rationale for MPLS
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I have been conducting research looking for the economic justification for
MPLS. I have some feedback, but sound rationale from the industry has
eluded me thus far. I am looking for a paper, website, etc that explains
the benefits of implementing MPLS (other than technical) or gives some
economic modeling for MPLS-based networks. Any help, reasoning, rationale
or personal insights/views would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Shannon M. Lake Sr.
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<DIV><SPAN class=342132309-01102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Whatever the relative technical merits of MPLS/BGP VPNs over other layer
3 VPNs (GRE, IPsec, L2TP etc) there are many service providers around the world
selling these services. There is clearly a business need for them, and obviously
customers how will buy them (well, we have managed to sell them anyway!), so
there is an economic reason to deploy MPLS.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=342132309-01102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=342132309-01102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Layer
2 based LAN extension services will only extend this market further and again
uses MPLS as its base transport mechanism.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=342132309-01102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=342132309-01102002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Matt.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Shannon Lake
[mailto:shannon@omnivergent.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 01 October 2002
08:26<BR><B>To:</B> nanog@merit.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Economic Justification
/ Rationale for MPLS<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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Gentlemen:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have been conducting research
looking for the economic justification for MPLS. I have some feedback,
but sound rationale from the industry has eluded me thus far. I am
looking for a paper, website, etc that explains the benefits of implementing
MPLS (other than technical) or gives some economic modeling for MPLS-based
networks. Any help, reasoning, rationale or personal insights/views
would be greatly appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks in advance,
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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Sr.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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