Re: Multilink PPP (fwd)

Charlie Clemmer (cclemmer@BayNetworks.COM)
Thu, 01 May 1997 05:35:37 -0500

We did a proprietary multilink before MP was available also. However, not
all customers expect multilink out of ISDN only. There are a large number
of customers who would like to line balance across say multiple T1's,
because they need more bandwidth than a single T1, but can't afford a T3.

When we released MP on our routers, we did so across both dial services
(ISDN and traditional switched) as well as PPP based synchronous circuits.

Since you can't always control what router is on the other end, open
systems generally provide the better solutions.

Charlie

At 09:40 AM 4/30/97 -0400, Stephen Zedalis wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Charlie Clemmer wrote:
>
>>I'm more concerned about interoperability with other vendor's equipment.
>>I would think that multilink ppp would be available on any interface using
>>ppp.
>>How does livingston provide line balancing over async?
>
>Same way as their analog modem multilink. They were using this long
>before the MLPPP became popular in ISDN. And yes they do use it on every
>interface that makes sense. It is only later that they provided MLPPP
>and MCPPP per RFC, as ISDN makes more use of it than the old proprietary
>protocol, and its a multivendor standard.
>
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