IP and Optical domains?

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Wed Jun 22 09:58:51 UTC 2016


Mark Tinka wrote:

>> By not managing transport characteristics at all except
>> that links are on or off (or, if you want to guarantee QoS,
>> a little more than that).
>
> But how do Layer 3 protocols manage transport characteristics today?

Today??? You asked "can be better designed", didn't you?

And, don't miss the following assumption:

 > L3 HELO generated frequently enough.

 > Again, this does not seem too removed from what happens already today.

The problem, if any, is that doing much more than that
results in "heavily underutilized" network.

 > I don't disagree with what you imply by "heavily".

The implication is not mine.

						Masataka Ohta





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