June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
12h 29m
English
Most MPLS-based solutions (with the notable exception of MPLS quality of service [QoS], which is not covered in this book) follow the same conceptual architecture: customer control plane operation, provider control plane operation, and data plane operation.
The following functions are performed by the customer control plane:
Customer routing information is exchanged between PE routers and CE routers.
Customer routing information is propagated between PE routers, most commonly with the help of Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP). MPLS labels are exchanged together with the customer routing information to facilitate the data forwarding with an MPLS ...
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