[75792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Public Interest Networks (was: Re: Consortium sheds light on dark fiber's potential)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Nov 24 14:41:27 2004
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: deepak@ai.net
Cc: vickyr@socal.rr.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:22:55 EST."
<41A4DF8F.9000701@ai.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:40:49 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <41A4DF8F.9000701@ai.net>, Deepak Jain writes:
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>Vicky, I apologize if I am hijacking your thread.
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>Is it just me or does all this talk of Research (and other Public
>Interest) Networks and logical separation by layer 1/2 leave [everyone]
>nonplussed?
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>How is logical separation of a network [say via MPLS] much different
>than using a lambda to do the same thing?
Wearing my researcher hat, the answer depends on what sort of research
you're trying to conduct. There are more things to do with a fiber
than just running IPv4 over it.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
