Packet Transport Trends: IP/MPLS Success Challenged as Deployment Footprint Expands
Seery, M.
Communications Magazine, IEEE
Volume 46, Issue 7, July 2008 Page(s):103 - 107
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/MCOM.2008.4557050
Summary:For most of the last decade, the prevailing industry assumption was that large public networks would migrate all services, transport, and switching to a single end-to-end IP/MPLS network - convergence. This assumption was validated by significant growth in IP/MPLS investment. Looking to the future, economic forces that affect suppliers, as much as operators, are challenging this assumption, and other scenarios now seem plausible.

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