No.
Ms.Radia's comments were absolutely correct at the time of her writing, she
just could not say anything that had not happened while she wrote the book.
Tag switching and other proprietary similar technologies, on which MPLS was
built, were faster than IP switching when ip switching was way slower. When
MPLS came out, the speed of ip switching was already greatly improved by new
hardware. So MPLS's design and implementation not focus on beating ip
switching on speed anymore. Traffic engineering, VPN(both cisco and
juniper), integrating ip into ATM and DWDM are the arenas for MPLS, my
opinion.
KY
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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 So are you saying that what Radia wrote is outdated and that MPLS is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.
>
>
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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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