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> Alex Rubenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It can also be argued that at some point, the speed > > capabilities of the core router scheme will not be able to keep up with > > currently technology. > > Yawn. What do you think the speed capabilities of "core router > scheme" are? You know, some very fast routers are rumored to > ship this year. As rumoured much faster traffic levels. Probably the need will eclipse the ability, soon enough. > > It's my opinion that at some point a 'routed' core > > will no longer be feasible, and it will be switched -- using what > > mechanism, I don't know (ATM? MPLS?). > > ATM, MPLS (or whatever idiotic virtual circuit scheme there is) can not > increase switching or routing capacity of boxes, period. These only serve > to screw up dynamic adaptive routing, forcing carriers to rely on wasteful > dual-ring SONET redundancy instead (and it still doesn't protect from a > switch crashing every few minutes). No comment on this, as I have none.
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