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Re: MPLS vs IP forwarding speed..

  • From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:34:53 +0200 (CEST)
  • Organization: People's Front Against WWW
  • Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:56:36 -0400
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:

> Well, 1997 is the "stone ages" for MPLS, and lots of strange claims were 
> made.

MPLS was invented due to lack of table space in ASICs, and when the 
problem was solved in 1997 it was a solution without a problem anymore, 
after that it found its killer app in the VPN space instead.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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