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Re: Reasons to deploy MPLS-TE

  • From: "Eric Osborne" <eosborne@cisco.com>
  • Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:56:40 -0400
  • Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
  • Resent-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:34:53 -0400
  • To: "Lavoisier J.L.Farias" <lavoisier_farias@uol.com.br>, mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
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On Sat, 1 May 2004 17:47:16 -0300, Lavoisier J.L.Farias  
<lavoisier_farias@uol.com.br> wrote:

> Dear Sir,
>
> My name is Lavoisier Farias and I work in a Brazilian software company.
> I am also currently working in my thesis at the State University of
> Campinas (UNICAMP). I have some basic questions regarding MPLS. In
> Brazil, I do not know any service provider that is implementing MPLS-TE
> in their networks(*). Hopefully there exist some one that I don't know
> yet. So, my questions are:
>
>  - What are the reasons to the service providers around the world
> deploying MPLS-TE ? Is the lack of bandwidth the main requirement ?

In my experience, fast reroute has been the biggest driver for installing  
mpls-te in a network; there are certainly large networks out there using  
it for bandwidth optimization and stats collection, but FRR has been the  
most widely talked about.

>  - Is there exist some network using MPLS-VPN (2547) and MPLS-TE at the
> same network ?

Yes

> And final question more related to my thesis subject:
> - Is the reoptmization feature available in Cisco Routers really used
> into deployed MPLS-TE networks ?

Yes



eric

>
> Regards and Thanks,
>
> Lavoisier José Leite Farias.
> Network System Engineer.
> (*) There are Traffic Engineer in some networks but since they have an
> existing ATM network.
>
>
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