Outlines traffic engineering principles, load balancing strategies, and protection mechanisms for L2 services, providing guidance on optimizing service delivery, ensuring network resilience, and enhancing performance across various deployment scenarios.
Preferred tunnel path
Introduces preferred tunnel path concepts, highlighting key benefits, deployment restrictions, and step-by-step configuration for MPLS-TE tunnels and VPLS integration to ensure optimal Layer 2 forwarding, including end-to-end service setup.
How MPLS PW traffic load balancing works on P routers
Explains MPLS pseudowire traffic load balancing on P routers by describing control word and flow label mechanisms, load-balancing topologies, and provides configuration procedures for effective traffic distribution and increased network efficiency.
L2VPN traffic load balancing on PE routers
Details L2VPN traffic load balancing techniques on PE routers, covering supported VLAN tag formats, VPWS and VPLS service interactions, BUM traffic handling, non-IP hash configurations, and hash algorithms for L2 and L3 interface traffic.
G.8032 Ethernet ring protection switching
Describes G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching, including operational principles, timers, single link failure protection and recovery, configuration procedures for ERPS profiles and instances, restrictions, and practical topology and interconnection examples.
VPLS preferred path over SR-TE policy
Outlines VPLS pseudowire path selection using SR-TE policies, integration with VPLS services, operational workflows, and provides configuration instructions for deploying VPLS preferred paths using Segment Routing Traffic Engineering.