RE: Optical Link Interface

["Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com>]

> [Bilel Jamoussi] There is no
> fiasco -- The ISPs and carriers I have been talking to view this as a
> very healthy and competitive approach to have a scalable and robust
> solution(s). Traffic Engineering an IP network (the only application
> where RSVP-TE is deployed today) is a very narrow segment of the
> MPLS/GMPLS applications market.

        

Not
exactly. I think that we want a scalable and
robust *standard* and competitive implementations,
not competing standards. Remember Beta vs. VHS? That 
is a good example of what happens when you get the 
latter: consumer confusion and inevitably wasted money 
and effort on the part of both the consumer and the 
vendor. :(  I think that the ADs are right here: lets 
settle on a single solution soon. I would opt for LMP
and LMP-WDM for the reasons already espoused.

        

--Tom