Option 4: Non-VPN Transit Provider
In this approach, multiple VPN providers use another MPLS-enabled service provider as a transit backbone to exchange MPLS VPN routes. Figure 7-31 shows a multiprovider MPLS VPN network using AS100 as a transit provider to transport VPN routes.
In this option, a multi-hop MP-eBGP session is formed between the two RRs belonging to the two different providers. To implement this option, BGP next hops need to be propagated and an end-to-end LSP path needs to be maintained.
P1-AS1-RR and P1-AS2-RR are RRs that are local in each of the provider’s ...
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