Is MPLS-TP on the RouterOS development road map? if so, when will it be released?
Hello Team
Please is TP an option on mikrotik any time soon?
MPLS-TP is a very different concept. It often requires and specialized hardware and provisioning concepts to make any sense of it.
What’s the market share of MPLS-TP anyway? I have not seen it in production.
Well, It’s often used as a replacement for legacy TDM-like tech, transporting synchronous and latency sensitive applications.
Then safe to say MPLS-TP is also legacy. A lot of carriers have removed TDM/SDH/SONET type equipment and replaced with modern-day OTN.
Even LTE/5G doesn’t use TDM.
There’s no reason for MikroTik to add this support. What we should see in 2023 from MikroTik is MPLS-EVPN.
MPLS-TP is not legacy, but its a niche market.
Correct, there is no reason for Mikrotik to invest in MPLS-TP, since it requires specialized hardware to make any sense.
How small is the market for this? What are some modern-day use-cases for it in carrier networks? I just can’t think of any because of EVPN.
No, it’s mainly used for specialized industries like utilities, industrial, military and so on. When were are often talking Megabits but needs to be very reliable and ultra-fast recovery scenarios. But It could be used as a transport for legacy services on a bigger carrier operator. EVPN and MPLS-TP is very different things.
Yes, Mikrotik should definitely bet on EVPN and EVPN on their switches.
Any example uses of MPLS-TP for Tier 1 carriers? It seems Ciena does deploy it in 2023 for large backbones?
I don’t work for a Tier 1 Carrier so I don’t know. Yes, Ciena seems to offer it as a high-SLA metro-service concept
I guess MPLS-TP makes sense for transport gear. Not networking gear. As it’s 100% transport related tech and less of networking/packet switching.
MikroTik doesn’t sell transport gear, only networking gear, so definitely no sense for them to add it.