So are you saying that what Radia wrote is outdated and that MPLS is indeed
significantly faster than straight IP forwarding? Bill St. Arnaud and
Howard Berkowitz would emphatically disagree with that, so could you point
me to some evidence supporting this contention that MPLS is indeed much
faster?
Not trying to flame, just trying to learn.
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> > And even the idea of higher throughput has been questioned by the mother
> of
> > all networking, Radia Perlman:
> > " Originally [MPLS] was designed to make it possible to build fast
> routers,
> > but then, using techniques such as [trie searches, parallelism, K-ary
> > searches] people built routers fast enough on native IP packets. So now
> > MPLS is thought to be mostly a technique for classifying the type of
> packet
> > for quality of service or for assigning routes for traffic
engineering..."
> > (Interconnections, 2nd Ed., p. 347-348). And I think we would all agree
> > that anything Ms. Perlman says must be given serious weight.
>
>
> Her book was published on 01/2000, I would imagine the actual context must
> be written 6 month earlier than that date, so her comments on MPLS was
> almost two years old, we all know in our network world two years means
what.
> Just read all those RFCs/Drafts since late 1999.
> I believe MPLS will play a key role in the optical world, such as DWDM.
>
> KY
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