Subject: Re: MPLS on Broadband

From: Harsha Vardhan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:44:14 -0800

What about VPN support by MPLS. Are there any products in the market
routers/BRAS whose interfaces support purely MPLS based VPNS.

Thanks in Advance,

Harsha

Richard Holben wrote:
> 
> Harsha
> 
> MPLS is becomming more popular in real live networks but its limited by the interoperability issues the operators are face with today, in the short to medium term things will get better and there are a large number of vendors with product in the DWDM market that are minimising the SDH content and are looking for something like MPLS or Digital Wrappers to provide the routing/switching intelligence.
> 
> Realistically it will be a while before we reach the ideal network where layers 1 to 4 are seen as one network from all aspects be they technology or daya to day running.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Holben
> Technical Account Manager
> Ericsson Converged Networks
> 
> M: 07770 731101       E: [email-masked]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harsha Vardhan [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: 09 March 2000 18:35
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: MPLS on Broadband
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can somebody give me pointers on the topic "MPLS popularity/growth/usage
> in the broadband world".
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Harsha