From: "Geo." 

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2004.04.23.04.56.15.860892{at}shultzinfosystems.com...

> I'm thinking that the telco's had a good idea with out-of-band signaling.
> Having the control stuff running over RFC1918 addressed links between the
> routers doesn't seem totally dumb.

You can do that on an ISP network as well with MPLS, it's just expensive
both in licensing and additional bandwidth but it has lots of advantages.
It's just that I can't see implementing something like MPLS until the
switch to IPv6.

Geo.

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