The MPLS-OPS Archive

["Dave O'Meara" <dave.omeara@eircom.net>]

On Monday 12 January 2004 09:55, Sunil Menon K wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Just to add on Dennis's model,
> 1)At CE, classify and mark the traffic.
> 2)PE just perform ip to exp and prioritization of traffic and 
> 3)P(typically Core)configure handling,ie...define queues and set drop
> precedence using any of the congestion avoidance mechanisms.
> Please suggest if there could be a better way to implement this.

Don't forget steps 1.5 and 4: 

1.5) At CE, perform prioritization of traffic.

Step 4) From PE to CE, perform prioritization of traffic.

The PE-CE link is typically the bottleneck, and prioritisation is important 
at any point where bandwidth reduces.

Dave


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