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Contents
Drawbacks of Traditional IP
Forwarding
Basic MPLS Concepts
MPLS versus IP over ATM
Traffic Engineering with MPLS
MPLS Architecture
MPLS Labels
Label Switch Routers
Most traffic goes between large sites A and B, and uses only the
primary link.
Destination-based routing does not provide any mechanism for
load balancing across unequal paths.
Policy-based routing can be used to forward packets based on
other parameters, butInternational
United this is not a scalable
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Basic MPLS Concepts
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LSR
primarily forwards labeled packets (label
swapping).
EdgeLSR primarily labels IP packets and
forwards them into the MPLS domain, or
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removes labels and forwards IP packets out of
Label Switch Routers (Cont.)
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Architecture of LSRs