Hi Jason, On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Jason Manley wrote:
Another thing I'd like to add to the 10GbE core is VLAN tagging, but that's a low priority at the moment.
I have a networking background, in the old days I built some very large networks. I still haven't grokked why people need vlan, except in the old days when thy used atm.
It's much better to use plain old tcp/ip or udp/ip, there is very little overhead and networks are able to route it anywhere without any special definitions. We have recent experience of other people trying to use vlans and lightpaths, after one year connection is still not working. We did the same with udp/ip, worked immediately at double the speed.
Cheers, Jouko
