Re: Are SW upgrades needed in MPLS core networks?

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:05:52PM -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
> > > > Based on the results it seems to be easy to conclude that about the
> > > > only reason to put IPv6 over [v4 over] MPLS on the networks (rather
> > > > than directly on top of the physical infrastructure) is due to the
> > > > other reason, because some vendors have sold crappy hardware which
> > > > does not support IPv6, or does not offer sufficiently good IPv6
> > > > performance.
> > > Even hardware with good IPv6 performance seems to forward at half the
> rate
> > > of IPv4/MPLS packets;
> >
> > we call that crappy hardware
>
> Based on such point of view, non-crappy hardware would be: (blank) and
> crappy hardware would be (blank), could you fill the blanks ?

As with so many other situations, the blanks can be filled in with 
"Juniper" and "Cisco", in that order.

http://www.juniper.net/company/presscenter/pr/2001/pr-011128.html

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