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Re: UTI (Universal Transport Interface)

  • From: Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 23:32:53 +0200
  • CC: Christopher Lewis <chrlewis@cisco.com>, Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>, Luc De Ghein <ldeghein@cisco.com>, rcheung@houston.sns.slb.com, mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
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  • Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:22:32 -0400
  • To: Andrew Walding <andy@cellstream.com>


:) :) you are right .. 

As a matter of fact I was in the restaurant named MPLS in Minneaoplis
and the food was not too good :). That must be the reason why some
people say what they say about MPLS ....

Cheers,
R.

PS. [Sorry for trashing the list but I couldn't resit either].

> Andrew Walding wrote:
> 
> Would you guys stop talking down about Minneapolis!
> 
> [sorry I couldn't resist]
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Andy Walding
> CellStream Inc. [ http://www.cellstream.com ]
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Raszuk [mailto:raszuk@cisco.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 4:05 PM
> > To: Christopher Lewis
> > Cc: Yakov Rekhter; Luc De Ghein; rcheung@houston.sns.slb.com;
> > mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> > Subject: Re: [MPLS-OPS]: UTI (Universal Transport Interface)
> >
> >
> > But Chris,
> >
> > MPLS over GRE does not require MPLS aware core at all ...
> >
> > The reason is different though :) Some poeple are just allergic to the
> > MPLS word anywhere in their network and since all MPLS provides is also
> > possible with IP (well maybe except TE yet) why not reinvent the wheel
> > and support some IP purists .... :).
> >
> > Anway L2TPv3 and MPLS will be used by operators and we vendors whatever
> > we think or feel will have to support both. End of story !
> >
> > Rgs,
> > R.
> >
> > > Christopher Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > > At 07:21 AM 8/7/2002, Yakov Rekhter wrote:
> > > > > UTI can transport layer2. GRE transports layer3.
> > > >
> > > >Since one could run MPLS over GRE, and since AToM can transport layer2,
> > > >it follows that a combination of GRE+MPLS can transport layer2.
> > > >
> > > >Yakov.
> > >
> > > Yes, but not all providers want an MPLS core today. I'll leave
> > the question
> > > of whether GRE could have been extended to cover L2 UTI
> > functionality alone.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
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