Thanks Saku and Michael.

From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 9:17 AM
To: Michael Hare <michael.hare@wisc.edu>
Cc: PAUL R BARFORD <pb@cs.wisc.edu>; Esteban Carisimo <esteban.carisimo@northwestern.edu>; nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>; Fabian E. Bustamante <fabianb@cs.northwestern.edu>
Subject: Re: Long hops on international paths
 
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 17:14, Michael Hare <michael.hare@wisc.edu> wrote:

> AS3128 runs MPLS and it's probable someone might correct me here, but for a IGP backbone area I think it's common for there to be a full mesh of LSPs via either LDP, RSVP, SR etc.  AS3128 is a small regional and we operate in that way across 60+ nodes.  I don't know if it's common for someone with a global footprint like 1299 to have a contiguous global MPLS backbone, but the point of my reply was to say it's not impossible to think 1299 has a global MPLS mesh between major POPs.

Yes, this is the common case, not an exception.

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