The MPLS-OPS Archive

[Daniel Kharitonov <dkharitonov@yahoo.com>]

IMHO,
"market acceptance" of the MPLS is slow for several
reasons:
 First, the current MPLS-VPN infrastructure is not
well suited for the real clients. The idea of having
an ISP in the middle of your routing protocol will
never appeal to any reasonable network manager. Of
course, this is not a problem of the MPLS per se, but
rather of the current IGPs, which are incapable of
"multihop" adjacencies.
 Second, the lack of multicast supports prevents
deploying MPLS in MANs. Although the original Cisco
tag switching did have some multicast capabilities,
MPLS multicast support is in very early stages.
 Third, most hardware platforms running MPLS still are
not up to the level of QoS support comparable to those
found in ATM network.

I think, we will see much broader technology
acceptance after the above problems will be resolved.


--
DK
Seisint, Inc



--- Irwin Lazar <ilazar@mplsrc.com> wrote:
> At 04:50 PM 1/20/2002 -0500, Thomas D. Nadeau wrote:
> 
> >>I'm looking for info on market acceptance
> >>of MPLS. Of special interest is info
> >>on carrier plans for deploying MPLS,
> >>types of carriers (i.e. long-haul, metto,
> >>etc) taking the lead in MPLS deployment,
> >>applications (e.g. VoIP, VPN etc) driving
> >>MPLS deployment, and projections for MPLS
> >>growth. Any pointers would be very much
> >>appreciated.
> 
> We try to maintain an unofficial list of carriers in
> the MPLS FAQ, see 
> www.mplsrc.com/mplsfaq.shtml
> 
> What you are asking for is pretty broad though, you
> can search through the 
> latest listings on the "MPLS News" section of the
> front page of the 
> resource center, otherwise I'd suggest contacting
> the MPLS Forum.
> 
> The other resource you might want to investigate are
> research and analyst 
> firms.  The company I work for, Burton Group, is
> getting ready to release 
> an updated report on MPLS which includes a lot of
> the info you are looking 
> for.  However our reports are only available to our
> subscribers, you can 
> get more info at www.burtongroup.com.  If you've got
> $1,000 burning a hole 
> in your pocket, you can download Yankee Group's
> report on MPLS from 
> Amazon.com - search on the term "MPLS" and you'll
> find it.
> 
> Irwin
> 
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