The biggest worry to me is that depite all the promises offered and realities
measured in the labs on all this MPLS, IP switching etc etc -- Internet
protocol cannot provide the QoS for voice and video multicasting with 5 Nines
reliability. IETF and Carrier Class 5 Nines reliability in a bulletproof
manner are like 2 cities still poles apart. Efficiency feathers went to IP-
cannot we be a little more honest and praise the Optical media and the Fibres
since even POS needs layer 1 optical PHYs.
Traffic management is another name of 99.99999% reliabiity at the end of the
day !
Just a comment , we are comparing apples with Oranges !
thx
getty
Sean Doran wrote:
> Dan Grossman writes:
>
> | ATM has a carefully defined traffic management architecture.
>
> Yes, that's its problem.
>
> From issue 10 of "New Carrier" (http://www.totaltele.com/newcarrier", p 22:
>
> ... the past several years' debates over the relative technical
> merits of [the] Internet Protocol versus other network technologies
> like ATM, often missed the point. IP and its associated technologies
> haven't taken over because they produce a brilliantly efficient network,
> but because they together seem capable of creating a dynamic
> openness for the network economy; this is because of, and not
> despite, a simplicity and a lack of carrier-style attributes.
>
> Sean.
