[88501] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Feb 7 22:16:42 2006
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:15:59 -1000
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> <http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2006-02/converged.html>
> here's me hiding this article from 'management' who are again
> chasing the 'converged' network :( In some cases it appears
> convergence makes some sense, I think often though (in my very
> humble experience) it's more of a buzzword-compliance test than
> anything else.
actually, it is commonly an internal power play. we'll deploy mpls
over our lambdas and then take over the ip business unit, the frame
relay business unit [0], the voice folk, ...
randy
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[0] - aka how to turn the fr cash cow into a bleeder
