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Loopback as a Service

February 18, 2025 routingcraft Leave a comment

Methods of steering traffic into MPLS and Segment Routing LSP is one of the least standardized and most confusing parts of traffic engineering.…

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Filed under: MPLS, network design, RSVP-TE, Segment Routing, SR-TE, traffic engineering

Why use an SDN controller for RSVP-TE

February 11, 2025 routingcraft 2 Comments

Despite many advantages of Segment Routing, some networks still prefer to use RSVP for traffic engineering – and they can have good reasons for this. Is there any value of SDN controller with RSVP-TE, compared to configuring policies on each …

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Filed under: MPLS, network design, RSVP-TE, traffic engineering

Poor man’s Traffic Engineering

September 2, 2024 Dmytro Shypovalov Leave a comment

Segment Routing allows the network operator to deploy Traffic Engineering even with the most basic routers that support the bare minimum of features.…

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Filed under: network design, Segment Routing, SR-TE

Making Segment Routing user-friendly

July 1, 2024 routingcraft 4 Comments

Segment Routing was supposed to make MPLS easier and give more power to network operators. Sadly, vendors decided to make it harder by selling weird protocols and over-engineered controller bloatware.…

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Filed under: MPLS, network design, Segment Routing, SR-TE

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