At 9:06 PM -0400 6/3/02, dre wrote: >""Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> My Product Line needs a new Story. >> >> Label: >> Stuff you stick to the front of your box for product identification. > >Compare the new Cisco Press title (from http://www.ciscopress.com/): > > Traffic Engineering with MPLS > Authors: Eric Osborne, Ajay Simha > Available: July 15, 2002 > ISBN: 1587050315 > Pages: 724 > > Hard to find information on how to use MPLS traffic engineering to > optimize network bandwidth, save on network cost, and improve > customer satisfaction > >With operator experience (from http://www.nanog.org): > > How the network would behave without MPLS > > WANDL simulations show that there would be no congestion in the > network based on IGP TE with IS-IS, so MPLS is not needed today > for TE. > > Bandwidth reservations for MPLS-based VPNs would not be as > meaningful with large amounts of native IP traffic on backbone trunks. > > http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0202/ppt/siegel/sld031.htm >
I agree that MPLS is not necessary for QoS if you have TE-aware routing protocols. There remain potential advantages to using MPLS, such as the various recovery and bundling mechanisms: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-recovery-frmwrk-04.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-ft-02.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-00.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-fastreroute-00.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-bundle-03.txt The GMPLS extensions also provide a clean interface to non-packet-oriented transmission systems. (G)MPLS is not a panacea,but it does have some useful functionality with which we are just starting to get operational experience. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=45733&t=45733 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
