The MPLS WG Archive

[Juha Heinanen <jh@lohi.eng.telia.fi>]

Eric Rosen writes:

 >  What is the customer application for which the customer is likely to
 > have a CE device that will mark individual non-IP packets with
 > diffserv information?

for example, bridging ethernet over mpls.

 >  Not many customers use MPLS for their internal stuff.  Do you
 > foresee a significant migration of MPLS into the enterprise?  Or are
 > you thinking of other service providers as the customers.

mpls may not be used that much inside the enterprise (apart from the
ces), but we have all kinds of other customers that do plan to use mpls,
such as other isps and mobile network operators.

 >  Are all these cases "very stupid"?  If not, how do they differ from
 > the case you are considering?

no, i was refering as "stupid" a case there the customer wants to send
mpls packets over my mpls backbone and must encapsulate them into frame
relay over local loop.

eric,  i haven't understod what you are driving at.  are you suggesting
that it doesn't make sense to replace frame relay with mlps as a logical
link service even when the backbone is mpls and the ces are mpls
capable?

-- juha