[c-nsp] gigabit ethernet ring for metro ethernet deployment

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Bill Wichers wrote:

> like SRP rings but with Ethernet transport instead of SONET.

Afaik SRP/DPT has a 802.1 header so basically it's ethernet. It was a 
strategic decision by cisco not to use it for switching. I even asked the 
GSR BU back in 2001 or so if they would do bridging code for the GSR to 
bridge it, but they said no. "Never going to happen".

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se