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Re: Market info re: MPLS

  • From: Mathew Lodge <mathew@cplane.com>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:10:06 -0800
  • Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:16:52 -0500
  • To: Daniel Kharitonov <dkharitonov@yahoo.com>, saqibj@margallacomm.com
  • X-Sender: lodge@localhost

At 11:00 AM 1/23/2002 -0800, Daniel Kharitonov wrote:
>  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.

Which is one of the reasons why L2 VPNs over MPLS are getting much attention.

>  Second, the lack of multicast supports prevents
>deploying MPLS in MANs.

Care to elaborate on why you believe it's impossible?

Thanks,

Mathew



| Mathew Lodge                 | mathew@cplane.com     |
| Director, Product Management | Ph: +1 408 789 4068   |
| CPLANE, Inc.                 | http://www.cplane.com | 

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