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Bhavesh Davda's avatar

I find your recent blogs, podcasts and musings on social media very insightful and refreshingly honest. Like someone who has nothing to prove, and lots of introspection. Very inspiring for the not-at-all-famous people like me 😀 Please keep them coming!

In this blog, I took 2 takeaways:

1. MPLS, like is often the case in tech, was initially a solution looking for a problem, and fortunately found a problem from the carrier’s desire to simplify operations for enterprise VPNs

2. Your superpower is explaining complex concepts in a simple manner, and you’ve repeatedly capitalized on it, like you said in this post: “Yakov and I later co-authored a book on MPLS which was an excellent career move on my part.” Thanks for sharing such honest introspection with your readers!

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Jim Forster's avatar

Nice article! I recall some bits of this. What about Ipisilon? Didn't they have a predecessor tag switching system? I recall they generated so much press that cisco had to respond, and MPLS became pretty important.

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