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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
I have no first-hand experience SRP/DPT. However, the following questions exist? Does it scale well to 10's, or perhaps hundreds of nodes? And, is there the possibility of one member hurting the entire ring? On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, [email protected] wrote: > > Given that your analysis could be used to make decisions about exchange > point architecture, I wonder if you would consider adding RPR IEEE 802.17 > into the mix? > While I don't know of anyone using RPR in an exchange point, there > certainly are products on the market and not just Cisco's SRP/DPT. Within > Ebone we were using SRP/DPT rings quite successfully in our PoP > architecture, i.e. it does work in the real world. I know that the > marketing side of RPR is promoting it as a metro area solution, but it > works just as well in a PoP. Given that you are comparing a PoP oriented > technology (Ethernet) with a metro area technology (ATM), I think it makes > sense to take a serious look at a technology that covers both. > > --Michael Dillon > -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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