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["Vipul Sharma" <vsharma@senecanetworks.com>]

Agreeing with Tom....My understanding is that there are many networks where
they have sophisticated NMS systems. Even the ones that do not have one
yet...are wanting to migrate to a sophisticated NMS system. The more one
wants to do traffic engineering and things like VPN, etc. need for NMS
becomes more pronounced....My one cents worth (smile)...

Vip

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas D. Nadeau [mailto:tnadeau@cisco.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 5:11 PM
To: danny@ambernetworks.com; mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
Subject: Re: Questions about MPLS




> > You made a failry long list of various BGP features involved in
> > providing BGP/MPLS VPN support. Would you care to elaborate on the
> > list of NMS features required.
>
>I guess you can take the list that's used to manage the
>configurations [there is one?] for the above and it would
>return the majority.
>
>Heck, the NMS could simply consist of a few perl scripts
>and a bunch of flat files, used for statically configuring
>the VPN and routing information in PEs.  That's pretty much
>how service provider networks are managed (i.e., configured,
>policy applied, etc..) today.

         While a plausable solution, I wouldn't give the impression
that most systems are like this. There are many SP networks that
I know of that are run by much more sophisticated NMS systems
than just scripts. Many of these products are not home-grown
either (i.e.: 3rd parties provide them).

         --Tom



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