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Re: Questions about MPLS

  • From: Eric Osborne <eosborne@cisco.com>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:05:41 -0500
  • Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:22:35 -0500
  • To: Danny McPherson <danny@ambernetworks.com>
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On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:57:30AM -0700, Danny McPherson wrote:
> 
> > As far as MPLS VPN vs. somthing like IPSec VPN, I think it's purely a
> > religious war.
> 
> Personally, I'm not a big fan of IPSEC at the PE.  IPSEC at the 
> CE, however, is clearly more scalable from an SP perspective (i.e.,
> it's just IP as far as the SP is concerned).
>

...sure.  But is IPSec at the CE more scalable than MPLS VPN at the
PE?
 
> > Every time this topic comes up, experienced
> > operational folks say that it's a hassle and a pain and doesn't scale, 
> > but it tends to be the same 3 or 4 or folks on the same 3 or 4 mailing 
> > lists. 
> 
> I guess the other 'experienced operational folks' don't 
> bother even responding.  I guess that falls back to MO's
> "I encourage all of my competitors to deploy it" .. which
> is unfortunate at best.
> 

So you acknowledge that there are other providers who don't speak up,
but assume they all agree with you? :) 




eric

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