Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?

Martin Hannigan wrote:

? I think this is a non-issue, considering that with the next generation of ? IP-only boxes ATM will become hopelessly useless. ? ? Better yet, the real big boxes are removing any need to do clustering, so ? the average number of IP hops for an NSP is going to be like 3 or 4.

Don't forget about ss7 bypass. It may get even better than you can imagine at the moment.

Like IP over raw fiber. Our friendly WDM vendors would love to get rid of SONET. SS7? What's that? ;) --vadim