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Re: MPLS vs IP forwarding speed..

  • From: sthaug@nethelp.no
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:17:13 +0200
  • Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:39:21 -0400
  • X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45

> Network processor vendors are lining up to claim
> performance pre-eminence when running the MPLS
> forwarding scheme.
> 
> the opening line on the page
> I assume they have some reason behind that claim

By my reading, that sentence can equally well mean that one network
processor vendor claims to be better/faster than *another* network
processor vendor. I haven't seen the original claims made here, so I
cannot really evaluate them.

However, what matters to the users (or in this case, the people buying
boxes with MPLS and IP forwarding capability) is what the *box* can do.
And the box vendors (e.g. Juniper, Cisco) do *not* claim that their
boxes have a speed advantage when doing MPLS forwarding.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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