11-03-2003 04:58 AM
Is it possibile to use MPLS Traffic Engineering for multicast traffic (sparse-mode PIM) ?
All the documents that I have found up to now speak about MPLS TE applied to unicast traffic, so I wonder if it is possible employ MPLS TE also for multicast.
Thank you.
11-03-2003 11:12 AM
MPLS Traffic Engineering does not support Multicast as of yet. There are developments in the IETF towards this direction. Cisco implementations will appear thereafter based on standards.
11-03-2003 12:02 PM
Thank you very much for your explanation.
As a workaround, is it possible to use tunnel GRE to transport multicast in MPLS and so to exploit the feature Traffic Engineering?
Does it make sense according to you ?
Regards
11-04-2003 02:58 PM
Traffic Engineering requires a mechanism that is based on defining constraints like bandwidth and building "constrained" Shortest Paths. Unfortunately using GRE to transport Multicast does not provide this capability.
Cheers
Amrit
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