Deployment Possibilities
One thing that you haven't seen yet is an example of how MPLS TE can be applied to solve specific problems in a network.
This section covers just that—the application of MPLS TE to solve different types of problems. This section has three main pieces:
Applications of tactical TE (two examples)
Using MPLS TE only for protection
Using MPLS TE for unequal-cost one-hop load balancing
Why is there no example of strategic (full-mesh) TE? It's not that strategic TE isn't useful, and it's certainly not that strategic TE isn't being deployed in the real world. It's that as soon as you have strategic TE, there's not much to it besides maintenance tasks—periodically changing your tunnel layout in accordance with traffic demands. Although ...
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