TE is really a buzzword used by vendor marketroids to extract cash from
operators who could just as easily spend it on the competition's gear.
IOW, the traffic that is engineered is the flow of money.
Why did Cisco invent Tag Switching? Hint: where is Ipsilon these days?
Hint II: how many big-iron ATM vendors are at the core of the Internet today?
Cynically,
Sean.
Why did Cisco invent Tag Switching? Hint: where is
Ipsilon these days? Hint II: how many big-iron ATM
vendors are at the core of the Internet today?
Ipsilon must be the secret sauce in accelerating Nokia's
firewalls. Or someone had an awesome idea for MPLS-switched
cellular networks (that must be what happened to 2G
wireless).
If Tag Switching was how everyone dumped their ATM, it's
been awfully quiet. Other than MPLS-VPN (to replace the IP
VPN headache with another one), doesn't seem like MPLS is
being adopted much at all right now.
Pete.