The MPLS WG Archive

[Eric Gray <EGray@zaffire.com>]

Eric,

	On a technical note (:-)) - I believe it is
possible to support a logarithmic growth in the
number of "boxes" relative to services.  I suspect 
this would make service providers happier than a
linear growth.  It would also allow larger service
providers to realize economies of scale - an idea
which has been fairly low profile in industry in
general these days...

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> Now someone will say, "Wait a minute, as your customer base 
> increases, this may require you to deploy more boxes; unscalable, 
> unscalable".  I have to admit, the scheme does not allow you to 
> provide an unbounded amount of service in a single box.  Both 
> the growth is not exponential, geometric, factorial, or any of 
> that really bad stuff.  The growth is linear, which is about the 
> best you can do.
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