14 Oct
1999
14 Oct
'99
7:27 p.m.
3 bits of clarification:
Some stick MPLS in the middle ala IP/MPLS/HDLC or IP/MPLS/SONET.
This was dumb. I meant, ala IP/MPLS/HDLC or IP/MPLS/PPP. A couple of folks mailed me to state that MPLS as a transport technology was in the future, isn't it? In fact, 2 networks including our own have deployed large [mostly ubiquitous] MPLS deployments, where most traffic runs on it, one all over, another in certain regions/areas. Finally, I was 'reminded' that MPLS convergence will actually surpass SONET w/ restoral times, on the order of << 50 ms. Really real soon now. -alan