Summary
This chapter was somewhat of a departure from the other chapters in this book. Rather than talking about things like configurations and debugs, this chapter concentrated mostly on scalability. Both tactical and strategic TE deployment methodologies were discussed, with a major focus on the scalability of strategic TE deployment in a full mesh. The scalability of various FRR protection methods (link, node, and path) was also discussed.
It is important to realize that the scalability of a particular TE deployment methodology is not the only reason you pick that methodology. You need to consider all sorts of other factors, including network stability, SLAs and uptime goals, and many other things.
The most important thing you can take away ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access