On 19/Jun/20 09:50, Saku Ytti wrote:
I'm sure such devices exist, I can't name any from top of my head. But this market perversion is caused by DC people who did not understand networks and suffer from not-invented-here. Everyone needsa tunnel solution, but DC people decided before looking into or understanding the topic that MPLS is bad and complex, let's invent something new. Then we re-invented solutions that already had _MORE_ efficient solutions in MPLS, and a lot of those technologies are now becoming established in DC space, creating confusion in SP space.
Maybe these inferior technologies will win, due to the marketing strength of DC solutions. Or maybe DC will later figure out the fundamental aspect in tunneling cost, and invent even-better-MPLS, which is entirely possible now that we have a bit more understanding how we use MPLS.
Let me work out how to print all this on a t-shirt. Mark.