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Re: Market info re: MPLS

  • From: Christopher Lewis <chrlewis@cisco.com>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:31:36 -0600
  • Cc: Mathew Lodge <mathew@cplane.com>, saqibj@margallacomm.com, mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:30:06 -0500
  • To: Daniel Kharitonov <dkharitonov@yahoo.com>
  • X-Sender: chrlewis@fargo.cisco.com

Daniel,

If you really believe these things, please open up a thread on the IETF 
PPVPN alias and explain your views there, I think that has all the 
necessary people on it to address your ideas.

Chris

At 06:40 PM 1/23/2002, Daniel Kharitonov wrote:
> > issue). RFC2547 is good
> > for large, complex VPNs, but too complicated for
> > smaller VPNs or
> > point-to-point.
>
>This is not my point. RFC2547 does it's job well.
>Problem lies in the fact, that an ISP in the middle of
>the client's routing protocol is ridiculous anyway.
>And as I said, the fix for this is actually outside of
>the MPLS scope. It is just amazing, how far the
>technology developers are from the real world.
>
> > The interesting
> > thing is that these
> > technology solutions seem to map fairly well to
> > small, medium and large
> > enterprises, respectively, so there's a sort of
> > "natural" segmentation of
> > the marketplace.
>
>I am yet to see a large enterprise network manager who
>would allow an ISP to participate in his IGP. This is
>scary and, furthermore, unneded. Once Cisco will
>introduce multihop configuration option to the CE
>IGPs, the whole issue will fade away together with
>PE-VPN scalability concerns.
>
>
>--
>DK
>
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