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To: Bindusagar Reddy who wrote (8899)	7/28/1999 2:58:00 AM
From: MMW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

BR, Check this one out, it is happening whether you like or not : Uunet Upgrades European Network July 22, 1999 By Kate Gerwig UUNET, MCI WORLDCOM'S Internet company, announced Wednesday it's beginning a three-phase upgrade of its European Internet network to 2.4 gigabits of data per second. By deploying the new Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology, Uunet will increase its European network capacity 16-fold. The capacity upgrade ultimately will increase the company's ability to offer video services and new applications over the network, according to Kevin Boyne, senior vice president of Global Operations. The upgrade is not being made to handle voice services over the European network, Boyne said. ……………………………………………………… Uunet's implementation of MPLS technology is the first commercial deployment of the technology, according to Boyne. ……………………………………………………… Uunet's Internet Protocol (IP) over MPLS over Sonet facilities in Europe will run in addition to its existing IP over ATM over Sonet network there. Using the new MPLS technology will position Uunet to make the next technology upgrade, according to Uunet Chief Scientist Mike O'Dell. Uunet will use Juniper Networks M40 gigabit routers in the European MPLS lines, but says it is also working closely with Cisco Systems for further deployment of high-speed routers. The MPLS network upgrade to STM-16 (2.4 Gbps) is equivalent of Uunet's OC-48 upgrade in the U.S., he said. In phase one of the upgrade, which will be completed in the third quarter of this year, Uunet will first increase capacity between London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Phase two of the project will add the Paris and Brussels routes in the fourth quarter, as well as a similar deployment via Uunet's Gemini 2000 transatlantic undersea cable by 2000. Uunet's implementation of MPLS technology is the first commercial deployment of the technology, according to Boyne, who added that the company believes the protocol is mature enough to be deployed for commercial use. MPLS has been in development by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for years, Boyne said. Its key benefits are that it will enable Uunet to deliver consistent levels of service across its networks in the U.S. and Europe, where Internet traffic growth is outpacing that of the U.S. For now, Uunet still plans to use IP over its ATM backbone in the U.S., Boyne says, but eventually MPLS will be used here too. Uunet and other ISPs have run into engineering problems trying to increase the IP/ATM interface speeds above 2.4 Gbps, O'Dell explained, so the move to MPLS will make future upgrades easier. "The problem is in building ATM interfaces that run at OC192 line speeds. As the line rate gets faster and faster, it gets harder to do. Sot it's a significant engineering bottleneck," O'Dell says. teledotcom.com

To: Bindusagar Reddy who wrote (8899)	7/28/1999 9:49:00 AM
From: Mighty Mizzou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Why do you argue MTV's lame whining with valid reasoning? Please ignore this schmuck, you have better things to debate! Thanks BR!

To: Bindusagar Reddy who wrote (8899)	7/28/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: The Phoenix	Respond to of 21876

CISCO has only one thing a slow gigabit Router GSR crap. C'mon BR you're smarter than that. Has working at ASND all these days really got you believing this? Take a trip to the Cisco web site and then tell me that all Cisco makes are routers... cisco.com Granted Cisco makes a lot of routers..but Cisco is far from a one trick pony. Clearly not as diversified as LU but certainly more than a router company. If you are dreaming that Router will deliver all the above services you along with other CISCO heads should get their heads scanned horizontally and vertically only to find them empty. There is nothing better to deliver multiservice and application aware networks than IP. QoS issues are being solved very very quickly. Furthermore, we'd all better hope we can get multiservice on IP since 95% of us on SI are connected via IP and I suspect that replacing that infrastructure with something new will not be entertained... I suspect that the preference will be to upgrade software to support Diff-Serv, IP precendence, RSVP, etc... OG