Hey Howard, sorry if my last few posts have been an imposition on you. When
I said "please respond", what I should have said was that "I really hope you
can respond", and I sincerely apologize for using improper tone of language.
Thank you for your kick-ass responses.
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> So are you saying that what Radia wrote is outdated and that MPLS is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.
>
>
> ""KY"" wrote in message
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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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