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Vadim Antonov <[email protected]> wrote > >> Hop-by-hop routing is on its way out....and not soon enough. > >Worked fine for the last 20 years. Can you substantiate your >assertion? So far all alternatives were shown to bring more >problems than improvements. > I am certainly not one to forget where we came from. It did, and will, have its place in the network. However, more end to end knowledge is required in a converged network. I am for one looking to ease the load of general traffic engineering. In the giant carrier backbone, it may be better to use your resources wisely, than to overbuild your network. I hear a phrase quite often "Everything is going to IP". Well, before my phone call is on IP, I want some guarantee that its getting from point A to point Z at the rate I'm paying for. On the OXC front: The usage that may become dominant, is more protocol agnostic. The sales of point to point lambda windows makes for a pretty cool application. This looks more to be a "carrier-to-carrier" application. Rather than leasing dark fiber, you can just buy a lambda to complete your ring...etc. We might finally have a good use for all this glass going in the ground. And before I slip too far off topic.... -tm
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