Describes the Resource Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) signaling protocol that Crosswork Network Controller uses to reserve network resources, establish explicit paths, and allocate bandwidth for critical applications.
Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) is a signaling protocol that:
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Enables systems and local clients to request resource reservations from the network,
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Establishes explicit paths for data traffic, and
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Ensures that necessary bandwidth and network resources are allocated for critical applications to meet desired Quality of Service (QoS) standards.
Resource Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) processes protocol messages from other systems, handles resource requests from local clients, and generates protocol messages. It manages the creation, maintenance, and deletion of resource reservations for data flows.
Crosswork Network Controller supports the RSVP-TE features described in this chapter.