Hi Robert,

Colby addressed some of your points, but there are a few more.

>>>> Do you plan to support PE-CE link congestion by use of PE-CE protection in 
>>>> case of multihomed customer sites ? 
>> We support this on all links.
> 
> Very interesting ... 
> 
> You know what this means for PE-CE ... you need to take traffic back to your 
> core, carry it to another PE then try to see if it fits the PE-CE links. 


If that’s the computed bypass path, then yes, we would ECMP onto it.


> And what if it does not ? 


Then it gets dropped, due to congestion. You’re no worse off than before as the 
primary path was congesting.


> And you do swap a service label (for example L3VPN) ?  


We’re doing whatever the forwarding technology does for bypass paths.


>> Conceptually, this can also be done on MPLS LSPs equally.  Entropy labels 
>> are recommended.
> 
> Entropy on FRR path ? 


Entropy because we would be doing ECMP between the FRR and primary paths.


>> If the only traffic on the link are elephant flows without any kind of 
>> entropy or distribution, then TTE is not recommended. The prefix/label 
>> selection algorithm at this point is random and relies on the Law of Large 
>> Numbers to select prefixes/labels. Pragmatically that suggests that a link 
>> should be carrying at least 50 flows with a Gaussian distribution of 
>> bandwidth demands.  
> 
> Again if you would do it for internet IP plain forwarding I would perhaps 
> give it some chances to help. But for all tunneled networks I am remaining 
> quite sceptical here - sorry. 


We welcome your skepticism and ask only that you retain an open mind.

Tony


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