Making interconnection agreements between networks more dynamic

Tue May 23 23:27:29 UTC 2017

>> to me, this was the dream of optical switching and gmpls (which is
>> not mpls)
> And, pray tell, what is the use of me setting up "peering" between
> myself and a network on the other side of the world when the data
> still has to flow over the same connections, merely encapsulated
> inside a tunnel?

read "which is not mpls" a few more times.  than maybe read a bit on
gmpls and optical switching.  you may find
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_Multi-Protocol_Label_Switching
a reasonable place to start.

randy