Re:Was MPLS Traffic Engineering Worthwhile?
by nu11ptr on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:34PM
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There is no doubt FRR had value, but like all tech, there was a complexity that came with it, so it really only made sense for certain applications. Heavy voice/video networks were a no brainer, but other TCP-based applications that were less sensitive were of less value, esp. as IGP convergence improved.
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Re:Was MPLS Traffic Engineering Worthwhile?
by great_wubwub on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:41PM
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Yeah, for sure. I'm not saying FRR was always the right answer for all questions, but for a good decade or more it was a pretty solid choice, and particularly with auto-tunnel, it was easy to do. RSVP was far too complex a hammer for just FRR, and I like SR-LDP for FRR now, but from maybe 1998 (?) to 2015 (?) MPLS-TE FRR was the best tool we had.