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Re: MPLS aware NICs

  • From: Puddinhead Wilson <puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:15:11 +0100 (BST)
  • Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:41:47 -0400
  • To: sthaug@nethelp.no

Can you recommend some good books on the same?


 --- sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: 
> > > Ethernet interfaces are very popular for
> customers
> > > here in Norway
> > > too - but again, your core network could be
> > > completely different.
> > 
> > yes, but no reason why ethernet would not scale...
> > 
> > Let me check what the latest rage support on ZX
> > modules are...a few 100 kms? how costly is it to
> put
> > up another switch after every few 100kms?
> 
> The reason pure Ethernet L2 networks don't scale
> well have little or
> nothing to with distance limitations for ZX GBICs
> (which, by the way,
> typically is 70 to 100 km).
> 
> If you don't know why scaling pure Ethernet L2
> networks is difficult
> I would encourage reading up on this before trying
> to continue the
> discussion.
> 
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
>  


	
	
		
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