Cell Relay Archive

[Paul Koning <pkoning@xedia.com>]

manfredi@arl.bna.boeing.com wrote:
> 
> In article <33D75E53.2D8@tcom.epfl.ch>,
>   Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin <jpmf@tcom.epfl.ch> wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > > At least, that's not the normal way of doing business.
> > > (I suppose one could implement a special-purpose ATM network
> > > that way, to somehow force VCs to be torn down and re-established
> > > whenever a routing table change occurs.)
> >
> > OK, this answers my question: you think rerouting existing long-lived
> > VCCs could be done, but nobody does it. Right ?
> 
> Others have mentioned proprietary solutions, like "soft PVCs." But
> essentially, you're right.

No no...  Soft PVC is NOT proprietary, it's a part of PNNI.  (Well, 
some implementations may be doing proprietary things that achieve the
same result -- but you can certainly go with standards and have this
capability.  I expect that most if not all PNNI implementations that
have PVC support will include the Soft PVC support.)

	paul
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