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Was MPLS Necessary?
- betaby 4y agoProbably. LDP on other hand - no. Not really.
- davidro80 4y agoHow else were labels going to be distributed at a foundational level?
- betaby 4y agoISIS of course, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-IS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-IS ... precisely how it's done for SR+MLPS.
- throwbigdata 4y agoHell, yeah.
- davidro80 4y ago
- drbruced 4y agoLabel distribution in BGP covered a lot of the most impactful use cases, RSVP_TE covered the next tier.
- booboofixer 4y agoMPLS will die, we will kill it. Although for that to happen, IPv6 will need to dominate networks and old/slow hardware will need to be retired.
- parasubvert 4y agoSo, basically, never. :) Things like SR-MPLS will give it another 15 years of life.
- booboofixer 4y agoSRv6 is the future!
- throwbigdata 4y agoNo but neither was tcp/ip. However both added value. In the late 90s it was ATM and Frame Relay v MPLS. rough consensus and running code culminates to standards. But none of its necessary.
- tssva 4y ago"(The inaugural session contained a number of memorable talks, such as David Clark’s actually-not-outrageous position that networking people should all become economists.)" Long ago I was a network engineer including a stint with a major ISP where I was knee deep in the design and implementation of MPLS TE on the backbone. I have a BA in economics, so I was the opposite of the above quote. I was an economist who became a networking person.