packet reordering at exchange points

Wed Apr 10 14:51:36 UTC 2002

Peter,
For basic Internet style routeing you are probably
correct [and possibly even more true for MPLS style
switching/routeing], but these days customers 
demand different classes of service and managed data and bandwidth
services over IP. These requires lots of packet hacking and for
that you need bufferss. If you need any type of filtering done
thats remotely intelligent you need somewhere to process those
packets especially when you are running 10G interfaces.

Regards,
Neil.
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Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking
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