[67247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are SW upgrades needed in MPLS core networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Fri Feb 6 13:13:40 2004
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:12:25 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <070801c3ecdb$dd071e10$020ba8c0@NOTEBOOK>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:05:52PM -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
>
> > >> Based on the results it seems to be easy to conclude that about the
> > >> only reason to put IPv6 over [v4 over] MPLS on the networks (rather
> > >> than directly on top of the physical infrastructure) is due to the
> > >> other reason, because some vendors have sold crappy hardware which
> > >> does not support IPv6, or does not offer sufficiently good IPv6
> > >> performance.
> > > Even hardware with good IPv6 performance seems to forward at half the
> rate
> > > of IPv4/MPLS packets;
> >
> > we call that crappy hardware
>
> Based on such point of view, non-crappy hardware would be: (blank) and
> crappy hardware would be (blank), could you fill the blanks ?
As with so many other situations, the blanks can be filled in with
"Juniper" and "Cisco", in that order.
http://www.juniper.net/company/presscenter/pr/2001/pr-011128.html
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