"vpn exchange point"

William McCall william.mccall at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 19:59:32 UTC 2010


OP is referencing MPLS/BGP VPNs, not like IPsec VPNs. And I'm not sure
that I've (personally) ever heard of an IXP for MPLS. The question
really is... does it make sense for carriers to create an MPLS/BGP VPN
sort of internet? I'd vote probably not in their immediate interests.

--WM

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
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> On Jul 21, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam wrote:
>> Do you know of any "vpn exchange point" implementations please? -I mean something like IXP but for mpls vpns
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> That would be like an IXP but for email.  Or an IXP but for web traffic.  VPNs are an application that run over IP, and IXPs are interconnection locations for IP traffic.  So you don't need to worry about what you're worrying about.
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> Nor, for instance, do the VoIP people.  Ahem.
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