Spill a drink on me
May 21st, 2008 by Dan
“‘Dry Martini?’ Sweet”, I thought to myself-”maybe there’s a new day dawning, where tech-speak enters a more user-friendly, accessible and dare I say, hip, age? ‘Dry Martini’ is the name of a virtual private network? Cool. So regular people can understand and maybe even want to get one? Nice! It’s about time. Sound knowledgeable and hip at your next networking mixer? That’s a huge bonus. Chicks dig guys who are knowledgeable and not boring.”
So I did a little research. Turns out Martini is the name of the developer. Uh oh, red flag. Then I read an interview with this Martini fella:
Light Reading: Do you think there are issues with VPLS?
Martini: The major problem with VPLS is the management of the service…So my question is: Why not just do Layer 3 MPLS VPNs? VPLS does not scale. I think these efforts are a recreation of ATM LAN emulation. People never really deployed LAN-E, and VPLS does the same thing. It is similar to LAN-E, except it has been simplified somewhat. But it’s still very difficult to manage, and I don’t think that carriers will find it profitable to do this.
Light Reading: Do you think that it would make more sense to use RFC 2547 to create Layer 3 MPLS VPNs?
Martini: Yes, or you could create a mesh of Layer 2 VPN tunnels. Layer 2 lets you create point-to-point tunnels, so that you can manage both ends – it’s much easier.
Never mind.
