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Segment routing

Author: Bruno DECRAENE

Publication date: February 10, 2019, Review date: September 29, 2021

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4. Applications

Segment Routing makes it possible to route a packet along a particular path, without creating states in the transit network, or requiring signaling. This opens up new applications in networks that previously used IP or MPLS/LDP. For networks that used MPLS/RSVP-TE, the majority of applications were already possible, but Segment Routing brings a number of changes.

This section explores three families of applications:

  • improved network response in the event of an outage;

  • better adaptation of traffic routing in the network ("TE" traffic engineering);

  • better network operation.

4.1 Responses to faults

In the event...

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