>Hello all:
>
>I would like to hear some thoughts on people's opinions on MPLS in general
>and on RFC 2547-style VPN's in particular. Are providers and (very) large
>enterprises going to embrace these techniques for their purported
>advantages, or does it represent too much change for too little benefit?
There's quite a range of opinion. Speaking personally, I see them
used for provider-provisioned VPNs, but terminating at the site
level. Also, I question the real need for the amount of flexibility
-- and thus complexity -- that they support, which potentially loads
more and more state into stressed BGP routers.
They are also a market reality.
At a NANOG meeting, a respected operator said in a public forum, "If
this is the answer...it must have been a pretty stupid question."
Marketeers from all vendors like to differentiate their products with
more and more features. I don't personally equate adding more and
more features with improving reliability.
Not everything that COULD be done SHOULD be done.
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