Re: Why MPLS

It's not really faster, but it's more about the applications that MPLS
enables - MPLS VPN, TE, QoS, Multicast, etc.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Happy Singh <happynetworkingsingh_at_gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I just started MPLS studies . Got an idea of how labels are assigned , how
> labels are distributed etc .
> But my question is :
>
> Without MPLS ; we perform lookup in IP routing table ...... With MPLS ; we
> assign labels and now lookup is done in label table and necessary action is
> taken ( pop / swap etc) .
>
> So how does it becomes faster ? How does it become better .
>
> Yeah ; I understood the fact that core is now BGP free ..
>
> But instead of doing IP lookup ; we are doing label lookup now . So how and
> where are we saving ?
>
> Please clearify
>
> Thnx
> Happy !
>
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