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Re: [mpls] FW: I-D Action: draft-farrelll-mpls-opportunistic-encrypt-00.txt

Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> Sun, 12 January 2014 12:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mpls] FW: I-D Action: draft-farrelll-mpls-opportunistic-encrypt-00.txt
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On Thursday, January 09, 2014 08:32:47 PM Stephen Farrell 
wrote:

> Are those widely used? I'd be interested to know. If not,
> then this tool as another tool in the toolbox may be of
> use.

Folk like Adva, Tejas and others have encryption at the 
optical layer. I'm not sure how well this scales in service 
provider deployments, but I know enterprises have been 
lapping it up.

The fastest data rates I've seen being encrypted at the 
optical layer are 10Gbps.

Mark.

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