Re: [c-nsp] Seamless MPLS interacting with flat LDP domains

[Mark Tinka]

On 2/May/19 11:33, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN wrote:

>
> Just talk about converting DC to MPLS and you will start having other kind of 
> problems. 
> IMHO, if DCs didn't massively adopt MPLS is because lack of training and what 
> I call "end-user mentality". In lots of cases you are dealing with people 
> that when you say "MPLS" they understand "site-to-site L3VPN using some magic 
> technology" (that they don't understand). Others do understand some tiny bits 
> but see it as a "carrier technology". And there's enough of them so that 
> manufacturers take their opinion in consideration. Result => VXLAN.
> Those being said, there are DCs that managed to go the MPLS way, but it looks 
> more like an exception rater than the rule. Unfortunately.

When exchange points started using it (VPLS) to operate the member
fabric, you know it was downhill from there :-).

And that was way before all this Cloud/DCI/VXLAN/SDN/SD-WAN monstrosity
our industry finds itself in :-).

Mark.
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