Want to know how Nortel is “changing the world with Metro Ethernet”? If so, you can check out this podcast featuring Philippe Morin, who heads up Nortel’s Metro Ethernet networks unit.
So, the best way to respond to “hyperconnectivity” is switched ethernet or more correctly “carrier class switched ethernet?”
PBT (a dumber switched ethernet without multicast/broadcast or mac learning), sounds simple until you realize that all relationships are static and there is no routing or discovery. Of course, there are now standards body proposals for forwarding and control for PBT, which leads you down the same path as MPLS again. This is a breakthrough technology? A tipping point? For whom?
More likely I am experiencing deja moo (or perhaps deja poo) from the 1990′s
Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Secrets Revealed
Want to know how Nortel is “changing the world with Metro Ethernet”? If so, you can check out this podcast featuring Philippe Morin, who heads up Nortel’s Metro Ethernet networks unit.