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Route Reflector and Areas

  • From: Ahmad Suzaili Shaari <suzaili@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:45:14 -0700 (PDT)
  • Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:23:58 -0400
  • To: mpls-ops <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>

Hi,
 
I'm new in IP and MPLS and a little bit confuse with the existence of Route Reflectors (RR) and segmenting the network into multiple areas. My questions are as follows:
 
1. Why do we need to have multiple areas in the network?
2. If we have RR implemented in the network, can we maintain a single area in the network.
3. Is it true that, if the network is segmented into multiple areas, it is difficult to perform the following:
  • Supporting end-to-end services requiring QoS guarantees
  • –Perfoming network resource optimisation
  • Providing fast recovery
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 Thank you.
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