IP over SONET considered harmful?
Vadim Antonov
avg at pluris.com
Sat Mar 21 01:43:46 UTC 1998
Martin Hannigan wrote:
> ? I think this is a non-issue, considering that with the next generation of
> ? IP-only boxes ATM will become hopelessly useless.
> ?
> ? Better yet, the real big boxes are removing any need to do clustering, so
> ? the average number of IP hops for an NSP is going to be like 3 or 4.
>
> Don't forget about ss7 bypass. It may get even better than you
> can imagine at the moment.
Like IP over raw fiber. Our friendly WDM vendors would love to get rid
of SONET. SS7? What's that? ;)
--vadim
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