Testing MPLS Enabled Networks
Kevin Boyne, COO of UUNet mentioned at a recent talk
at an MPLS conference at Virginia, USA that today's
opportunity is moving from Hypergrowth to Hyperscale,
as the target traffic flow will go from 1 Terabit/s
in 2000 to 10 Petabit/s (1 Petabit =1000 Terabit) in
2005, considering 10-fold growth every year.
Clearly, continuous innovations are needed to try and
solve the traffic flow problems, while maintaining required
traffic characteristics.
After separate efforts by many companies to solve this
problem, IETF as a body has proposed MPLS as a possible
solution. There is extremely heated activity in this
area currently,with Network Equipment Manufacturers
(NEMs, such as Cisco, Juniper etc.) rushing to implement
MPLS on their devices, and Infrastructure Service Providers
(ISPs such as AT&T, Sprint etc.) trying to utilize
this new technology to their advantage.
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