[c-nsp] DS3 Nubie

[Mark Tinka]

On Monday, September 27, 2010 01:23:52 am Seth Mattinen 
wrote:

> Ethernet has a much greater degree of operational
> stupidity and problem solving ineptness over the classic
> stuff. Ultimately its only advantage is cost.

Which is not a trivial matter when you start hitting the big 
numbers, i.e., 1Gbps, 10Gbps, e.t.c.

Perhaps Ethernet's simplicity is what has made it cheaper as 
bandwidth has gone up. Maybe the simplicity is now starting 
to show as it becomes a viable alternative to SONET/SDH/WDM.

Yes, link failure detection and other niceties are 
being/have been modeled into different applications (IP, 
MPLS, 802.<something>) that work on top of, alongside or 
within Ethernet. Whether that is enough is an exercise left 
to the reader.

Cheers,

Mark.
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