Historically there really was no MPLS enabled products that hit the right price points and/or features needed for the DC -- but some of us operators *have* implemented MPLS in the DC very successfully. My observation is that some vendors don't do MPLS/MPBGP very well and aggressively discourage its adoption, while other vendors reserve them for their SP products for which they need reasons to charge a premium. Now with support for MPLS in merchant silicon, I don't see any good reason why MPLS-based DCVPN solutions (IPVPN, E-VPN) should be held back, particularly if the overlay tunnel is IP-based and MPLS labels are used for VPN context, split-horizon, etc.
On Thursday, November 29, 2012, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 11/29/12 5:14 PM, S. Davari wrote: > > Regarding Technical merits, all these solutions are technically > > sound, the issue is that we don't want to have a dozen solution to > > the same problem. > > Traditionally the IETF has let the market sort out competing > technologies rather than try to deem one "best," but there's > got to be at least some evidence that a technology will be > adopted. I have to agree that MPLS in data centers is a > tough sell. It would be great to see some input from data > center operators to help sort this out. > > Melinda > _______________________________________________ > nvo3 mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3 >
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