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Traffic Trunk?

  • From: Ajay Simha <asimha@cisco.com>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:01:41 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
  • cc: <mpls@UU.NET>
  • X-X-Sender: asimha@uzura.cisco.com

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Zhu Heqing wrote:

> Hi, All:
>
> I am eager to know what's really meaning of "traffic trunk".
> In fact, it has been interpreted in RFC2702.(MPLS TE requirement).
> But I feel it is too abstract to get the point .
> What I can understand is to map FECs to LSPs directly.
> Maybe we can extend the routing protocol to use these LSPs.
> Can you give me a specific example or more specific description?

I would simply define traffic trunk as aggregate traffic from point A to point
B.


For example from Pop A of a service provider network to Pop B you would always
have a "known" load of traffic.  This would be your traffic trunk.

-ajay
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Zhu Heqing, Graduate Student
> University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
>

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