[e2e] [Fwd: State of MPLS deployments today]

[RJ Atkinson]

On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 06:23 America/Montreal, Robert Raszuk 
wrote:
>> first of all I should mention that MPLS deployment is far from being 
>> done (I
>> don't think that it has been deployed even in a large network 
>> operator) and
>> I largely suspect that it will never be deployed in a large scale to 
>> be the
>> primary backbone technology !!!!
>
> Would you mind sharing with me your definition of "large network
> operator" ? For me operators like ATT, BT, DT, FT, TI, Level3, 
> Worldcom,
> JT, KDDI and many many more are of the size I would considered as
> "large" on this planet.
>
> All of them are using MPLS and MPLS applications in their backbones.

	Using some tiny amount of MPLS for traffic engineering is probably 
common today.

	However, using MPLS label switching in the large scale is uncommon 
even today
in most of those operators that you mention above.  And several of 
those operators
you cite are aggressively opposed to large scale MPLS deployments due to
operational considerations (i.e. they report it is too hard to debug 
operational
problems in a large scale MPLS deployment).

	(Nota bene: I've deliberately trimmed the set of parties copied on 
this reply.)

Ran
rja at extremenetworks.com
speaking for myself only