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RE: Fwd: basic question on MPLS

  • From: Roger Clark Williams <rogerw@nordlink.com>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:59:03 -0500
  • Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:56:41 -0500
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Thanks to all for clarifying my earlier statement on MPLS being faster. I was implying that "faster" was a justification for the original choice, but the correction is probably best said in the reply I received from a friend in Cisco in checking one of the earlier responses:
This guy is right. The initial motivation of MPLS is to switch packets faster. However, with today's technology, ASIC and fast lookup algorithm, there's almost no difference between routing and switching packet.

I will say MPLS is the infrastructure. But infrastructure doesn't makes money. So the most important part of MPLS is the application/service based on top of it like MPLS VPN and TE. That's the driver of MPLS.





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