The MPLS WG Archive

[Kimmo.Raatikainen@nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EXT Brian E Carpenter [mailto:brian@hursley.ibm.com]
> Sent: 02. June 2000 0:39
> To: Bora Akyol
> Cc: diffserv@ietf.org; 'mpls@uu.net'
> Subject: Re: "This is a gripe" [was Re: [Diffserv] MPLS Diffserv
> Extensions related questions/comments
> 
> 
> Bora,
> 
> I don't think we will see reports of Diffserv deployment 
> experience until
> production releases from major router vendors support Diffserv.
> 
> The edge boxes that I'm thinking of will need to do MF 
> classification and shaping
> at LAN speeds (whatever that means in a particular year). 
> Other boxes only need
> to do BA classification and policing. 
> 
> But this is old ground that we settled in the early days of 
> diffserv. And
> I don't see what it has to do with MPLS.
> 
>   Brian
> 
Please keep in mind that gigabit cards are already available. In our
experiments we have found out that a high-end PC running Linux can send at a
rate of 250-300 megabits per second using TCP/UDP.

- Kimmo Raatikainen