Re: What frame relay switch is causing MCI/Worldcom such grief?
Prabhu -- a particluar implementation does not matter when the underlying idea is bad. Any circuit routing for data is broken-as-designed. (BTW, the irrelevance of the particulars is why i omitted attribution in the first place. This was a comment on the general state of affairs, not on the situation. Thanks for providing details, though). --vadim
From: Prabhu Kavi <prabhu_kavi@tenornetworks.com>
Vadim,
Your response is unrelated to the message I replied to, which asked about the link state algorithm that Cascade uses.
As far as I know, nobody has announced which set of MCI Wordlcom's switches were responsible for their outage. Since MCI Worldcom uses multiple types in their network, statements like "goes as predicted - complexity bites" is irresponsible at best, even if it is later determined the Cascade switches were actually the cause of the outage.
Prabhu
So I guess that means you know more than all those smart people (on both the service provider side and equipment side) who are helping incorporate lessons from Frame Relay and ATM circuit routing into MPLS? Prabhu Vadim Antonov wrote:
Prabhu --
a particluar implementation does not matter when the underlying idea is bad. Any circuit routing for data is broken-as-designed.
(BTW, the irrelevance of the particulars is why i omitted attribution in the first place. This was a comment on the general state of affairs, not on the situation. Thanks for providing details, though).
--vadim
From: Prabhu Kavi <prabhu_kavi@tenornetworks.com>
Vadim,
Your response is unrelated to the message I replied to, which asked about the link state algorithm that Cascade uses.
As far as I know, nobody has announced which set of MCI Wordlcom's switches were responsible for their outage. Since MCI Worldcom uses multiple types in their network, statements like "goes as predicted - complexity bites" is irresponsible at best, even if it is later determined the Cascade switches were actually the cause of the outage.
Prabhu
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