Re: [nsp] REG: MPLS Traffic engineering

From: Neil J. McRae (neil@COLT.NET)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 09:38:24 EST


> When RSVP is used to achieve traffic engineering, Typically I understand
> that it would request the network for a configured amount of bandwidth
> when a conversation starts. Now If I configure a VPN to be allocated 2
> Mbps bandwidth, When a conversation starts will RSVP request for 2 Mbps
> bandwidth & not release excess bandwidth that is not used during the
> conversation, or else does it work statistically, wherein wasted bandwidth
> is released during the conversation.
>

IIRC It doesn't work statistically and has options for pools that you can
configure and you can add different "classes" for which pool
the bandwidth is allocated from based upon what COS you want to offer.

Regards,
NEil.



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