RE: Point to Point Ethernet

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:

There's plenty of fiber in the ground. Light dark stuff with the new network, plug it into IEEE 802* compliant layer 2, and IETF compliant layer 3 infrastructure; and leave the dying Bellcore/ITU network on the old copper and SONET.

Have you built an nationwide greenfield network based on dark fibre and ethernet? I have. Don't misrepresent the problems that might arise from this. It might be easier to do compared to a SONET network, but it's still a can of worms and you definitely want a lot of the "bellhead" stuff you're ridiculing. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se