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Try "Ethernet-Based Metro Area Networks" by Minoli, Johnson, and Minoli in the McGraw-Hill Telecom Professional Series ISBN: 0-07-139686-1, which has some good chapters on Ethernet performance, VLANs and Rapid Spanning Tree. -----Original Message----- From: Puddinhead Wilson [mailto:puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 02:15 To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com Subject: Re: [MPLS-OPS]: MPLS aware NICs 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 > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------- The MPLS-OPS Mailing List Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.mplsrc.com/mplsops.shtml Archive: http://www.mplsrc.com/mpls-ops_archive.shtml ------- The MPLS-OPS Mailing List Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.mplsrc.com/mplsops.shtml Archive: http://www.mplsrc.com/mpls-ops_archive.shtml
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