The MPLS WG Archive

[Adrian Farrel <AF@datcon.co.uk>]

Eric,

Lou will have a definitive answer, but I think it is most interesting in the
VoMPLS world where each packet may be small (16 byte?) and the headers (IP,
RTP, MPLS) become very significant.

Adrian

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Rosen [mailto:erosen@cisco.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:01 PM
>To: Lou Berger
>Cc: Eric Gray; George Swallow (E-mail); 'Vijay Srinivasan'; 
>MPLS Mailing
>List (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: Process has been circumvented again 
>
>
>
>I wasn't in  Adelaide so I can't comment on what  might have 
>happened there.
>But I would  be interested in knowing why MPLS  header 
>compression is deemed
>useful.  
>
>Header compression  is generally  used only on  lower speed 
>links.   Are you
>envisioning the use  of MPLS for traffic engineering  on 
>low-speed links, or
>are you worried about supporting VPNs over a low-speed backbone? 
>