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Traffic Engineering with MPLS
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Traffic Engineering with MPLS

by Eric CCIE #4122 Osborne, Ajay CCIE #2970 Simha
July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
14h 52m
English
Cisco Press
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DiffServ and MPLS Packets

One thing you might have noticed is that there are 6 DSCP bits and only 3 EXP bits. Because only eight possible EXP values and 64 possible DSCP values (21 of which are currently defined) exist, how do you offer DSCP services over MPLS?

On a frame-mode network (as opposed to a cell-mode network), you are stuck with the 3 EXP bits; you need to map multiple DSCP classes to these EXP bits. However, this has operationally not yet proven to be an issue in production networks, because hardly any QoS deployments offer services that can't be provisioned with the 3 MPLS EXP bits.

Work is being done to define something called L-LSPs (Label-Only Inferred PSC LSPs) that will help alleviate this problem. The basic idea behind L-LSPs ...

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