Re: MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, Oh My!

[Jason Bothe via NANOG]

I’m thinking there is not a a wide market for them, not to mention last mile support. Folks that need 100 or 400 ports typically want point to point and at that juncture, wavelength or IPoDWDM makes sense as more than likely these are going between data centers and not to your average enterprise premises in a multi tenant building.  Just MHO.  J~ On Dec 26, 2024, at 18:35, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote:  A few years back, every Tom, Dick, and Harry was touting MPLS or Carrier Ethernet NNIs with 10G ports everywhere. They still are. However, I rarely have seen that graduate to 100G ports and I don't think I've seen anyone talk about 400G ports. Is the hardware not there, or is it more a case of the technology hasn't been deployed widely, so it'll only be seen at a limited number of locations? I'm assuming it's more of the latter as the bigger hardware I've been looking at touts those features and port sizes, but maybe there's some other unadvertised limitation. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP