Egress Peer Engineering: building blocks

Since exploring the EPE basics, now it’s time to understand the building blocks of the solution.

Summary

Overall, there are 3 elements of the EPE solution:

1. Egress routers allocate MPLS labels per egress peer and advertise them
2. Ingress routers or

Egress Peer Engineering: basics

Egress Peer Engineering extends regular BGP policies to provide more flexibility.

Why use Egress Peer Engineering

When a network operator has multiple external connections, such as IP transit, private peerings or Internet Exchange (IXP), there is often a need to …

Poor man’s Traffic Engineering

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

What is traffic engineering

Traffic engineering is a set of techniques to influence the path a particular …