I agree with about 50% of this.
All of the products I know of that run trill or spb or support several MEF
levels are Linux based that are driving FPGAs.
You also have stuff like this: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/sklvarjo/y1731/
If you look at cumulus networks, their Linux based stack is driving data center
network virtualization forward by giving you a common software platform on
abstracted hardware. None of it is MEF, but saying Linux has stagnated on the
general network front isn't accurate. It does lack a decent open source carrier
stack though, including the MEF pieces and things like MPLS. Thankfully some
vendors have stepped into that space... For a price.
On December 30, 2014 2:19:40 PM AKST, Fred Goldstein <f...@interisle.net> wrote:
>On 12/30/2014 5:05 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
>> How many WISPs have heard of MEF or CE or even VPLS?
>>
>> So... have you asked for it yet? :-p
>>
>>
>> supp...@mikrotik.com
>>
>>
>
>I may have once asked somebody from MT about it, maybe at a show, and
>they gave the predicted answer, that they're a *router* company. Sort
>of
>like DEC, which was a inicomputer company.
>
>Of course MEF has a lot of specs now. They aren't all critical, but
>support for the basic connection types, with QoS, is what matters. But
>this is foreign to the whole Linux-router market. Linux is a fossil of
>
>the early 1990s, when eye pee was still sort of the new thing, and
>everything else was assumed to be the enemy, or the eeevull telephone
>company. RouterOS is basically a lot of lipstick on top of Linux.
>That
>world still assumes that connectionless is next to godliness, that QoS
>is impossible, and that Ethernet is orange hose tied together with
>MAC-table bridges.
>
>For those unfamiliar with it, Carrier Ethernet, which is standardized
>by
>the Metro Ethernet Forum, uses the Ethernet frame format to provide a
>wide range of services that aren't bridging. There's point to point
>Ethernet Private Line, there's PtMP Ethernet Virtual Private Line, and
>there's MPtMP LAN emulation. It's usually connection-oriented, using
>the VLAN tag as the connection ID, not the MAC. It offers CIR+EIR
>support ("three color"). It is protocol-agnostic to higher layers. It
>
>is manageable. And with the new SPB, it has OSPF routing between
>network elements, not just RSTP.
>
>In other words, it's Ethernet Formatted Frame Relay. And that's good;
>it's an improvement over the original slow telco FR. It's the
>fastest-growing area in telecom (it's the new standard for cellular
>backhaul, for instance). But it's not ideologically part of the
>Linux/IP
>family, and people from that world (which includes most WISP suppliers)
>
>neither understand it nor understand why it's needed.
>
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