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["McCallum, Robert" <robert.mccallum@thus.net>]

Of course Eric isnt in the slightest bit biased about TE :-)

Robert McCallum 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Osborne [mailto:eosborne@cisco.com] 
> Sent: 03 May 2004 15:39
> To: Lavoisier J.L.Farias; mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> Subject: Re: [MPLS-OPS]: Reasons to deploy MPLS-TE 
> 
> 
> 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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