The MPLS WG Archive

[David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>]

Robert Raszuk wrote:
>>
>> All of these things are things that exist and can be supported using
>> ATM (for example).  Yet people you're talking to want them using
>> MPLS.
> 
> That is true that all of them can be provisioned with ATM today. But
> the problem is that using L2 (or any kind of tunneling) for TE, for
> VPN or even for Circuit Transport scales very poorly. Once you
> provisioned hundred or maybe thousand of VC your operations people are
> starting to suffer from lack of control and maintenance nightmare.

And this same nightmare doesn't exist if you provision hundreds or
thousands of LSPs through that exact same network?

-- David