The MPLS WG Archive

[Ramesh Bhandari <bhandari1@lucent.com>]

Sam

MPLS is just a mechanism for creating alternate paths. All the old traffic
engineering principles are applicable to the analysis of the MPLS networks.

Ramesh

Lucent Technologies
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Sam.Ng@sita.int wrote:

>   i am reading about mpls features, the more i read the more i realise it looks
> like very familiar
>   the traditional telephone network in term of route traffic away from congested
> path. In traditional
>   telephone network, we have dynamic alternate routing strategy to route traffic
> during Christmas
>   or New Year & we route traffic to different time zone to alleivate the
> congested path.  If it is what
>   i think then can those parameters (e.g. holding time, blocking , optimisation)
> would be applied to
>   mpls traffic engineering.. can we look at those principles applied to
> traditional telephone network
>   to mpls in term of traffic engineering..
>
>   Cheers
>   Sam
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