From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2007 - 11:46:07 ART
Marko,
I think you makes some good points based on what I have seen in the UK. I
do still see quite a bit of FR though although it tends to be legacy.
Rgds
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marko Milivojevic" <markom@vodafone.is>
To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:08 PM
Subject: RE: R&S Lab Changes per 01/01/2008?
>> R&S - add a 6500 switch for a core switch. Pull the 3550s. Add MPLS
> for the
>> core and get ride of FR.
>
> I wonder why this keeps popping up. FrameRelay and MPLS are two totally
> different things, not mutually exclusive or replaceable.
>
> While I agree that getting rid of FrameRelay may make some sense for us
> living outside of USA (on the small lava rock that I live on, we stopped
> using it en masse sometime around 2001 or so), MPLS is not really
> plug-in replacement from a technology point of view. While MPLS VPN's
> may be deployed as a corporate replacement for FrameRelay solutions,
> knowing how exactly MPLS works under the hood is not something that is
> enterprise subject - for that matter, not really R&S subject.
>
> However, what seems to be rapidly replacing FrameRelay as an access
> method are various DSL technologies - ADSL (with its 2+/Annex M
> toppings), G.SHDSL, EFM and fun stuff like that. If R&S lab wants to
> move into the new century, these should be included sometime soon.
>
> Marko
> #18427
>
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