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FW: Guaranteed QoS using MPLS?

  • From: Ruyter Hill <Hill.Ruyter@carrier1.com>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:16:38 -0000
  • Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:27:46 -0500
  • To: "'mpls-ops@mplsrc.com'" <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>


Hi  

I would like to comment here briefly 
I had an interest in a similar functionality and found in discussion with 
Robert (thanks for the info Rob) 

That although you can guarantee bandwidth and pass policed normal IP traffic
on a MPLS-TE tunnel (not hugely scalable)  

You cannot at present pass already policed and marked packets which are MPLS
labelled within an MPLS VPN over a specific bandwidth guaranteed tunnel
based on EXP field

so if someone wanted to create an MPLS-VPN say for GRX services and
guarantee SIP across it you would have to rely on normal queuing mechanisms
and be sure to put enough fat in the network in order to guarantee bandwidth
is available 

Lets hope that soon we have the ability to do MPLS-VPN over MPLS-TE 

Regards

Hill 


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Lewis [mailto:chrlewis@cisco.com]
Sent: 28 January 2002 02:57
To: saqibj@margallacomm.com
Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
Subject: Re: Guaranteed QoS using MPLS?


With the caveat that the amount of traffic the application will send is 
known prior to the network being setup to service that level of traffic,
yes.

Try http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/Tech/mpls/mpls_techdoc.shtml

This link shows how this can be done on Cisco networks by combining diff 
serv QoS and MPLS traffic engineering capabilities. This combination used 
to be called Guaranteed bandwidth services, but was changed to diff-serv 
aware traffic engineering. For this to work properly, a policer at ingress 
is necessary for the traffic eningeered tunnels to really function as you 
want.

Chris

At 06:36 PM 1/27/2002, Saqib Jang wrote:


>Could MPLS be used to provide "virtual circuits"
>for IP applications having specific QoS requirements.
>For example, could MPLS be used to create guaratee QoS
>across an IP core for an application that requires
>no more that .1% packet loss? Do existing MPLS routers
>have such capabilities or would this require implementing
>a new MPLS standard?
>
>Also, how would an MPLS LER classify traffic that uses
>dynamic port numbers (e.g. SIP)?
>
>Saqib
>
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