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[Spice Sylvia <falsesylvia@yahoo.co.uk>]

there are also very good books on the subject from
cisco press...do have a look at it!

 --- "Bell, John" <john.bell@thus.net> wrote: 
> 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
> >  
> 
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