[c-nsp] ISP / MPLS "POP" design

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Thu Nov 7 04:16:01 EST 2013


On Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:10:37 AM Oliver Boehmer 
(oboehmer) wrote:

> yep, along with multi-area/level/domain IGP..

In each island, however, multi-level/multi-area IGP's break 
MPLS-TE.

Maybe that will be solved by Segment Routing :-).

> Hmm, I consider BGP-LS only to distribute existing
> topology information to "clients" (for example some
> controllers or PCE or whatever is interested to learn
> about the network topology), not to update the RIB/FIB.

As I've slowly learned over the years in our business, one 
never knows :-).

I could see one network, for example, using BGP-LS to 
replace (not that it ever gained any notable traction) 
Inter-AS TE.

> of course, what else? ;-)

I've always said, watch this space, BGP will soon be doing 
DNS :-).

Mark.
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