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The Carrier IP Backbone
• CellHeads:
Smart Network,
Dumb Edge
• “Can I risk the future
on this rapidly
changing technology,
with unproven
reliability, unknown
Q0S, unfamiliar
vendors, and short
equipment lifetimes?”
• AirHeads:
Dumb Network,
Smart Edge
• “It’s just an Ethernet
switch! Ok, maybe
two.”
IP
backbone