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Flow-Aware Pseudowire for the Virtual Private LAN Service
draft-yong-l2vpn-fat-pw-4-vpls-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Lucy Yong
Last updated 2010-10-08
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Abstract

A pseudowire (PW) is used in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) solutions to form any-to-any connections and provide service demuliplexing among Provider Edge routers (PEs), and is normally transported over one single network path. Flow-aware PW enable a PW to take advantage of Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) and/or Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) in a packet switched network (PSN). PW packets with a flow label can be transported over multi-paths. This method can apply to the PWs in a VPLS service. This document describes how VPLS solutions utilize a PW with a flow label, and defines protocol extension for the provisioning of such PWs.

Authors

Lucy Yong

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