How I spent last summer:
Converting MAX to 2547bis VPNs

Dan Magorian
Director, Engineering and Operations
magorian@maxgigapop.net

Talk 1:  MAX’s 2547 vpn background

Mid-Atlantic Crossroads

MAX Core Optical Network

So what are RFC 2547 L3 VPNs or, Why should you let MPLS onto your network?

Policy Constrained Routing Review

PCR/ER Overview

PCR/ER – The Challenge

PCR/ER – Solution – (Control Plane) 2547bis L3VPN

That’s fine, but why should you care?

What Juniper doesn’t tell you about 2547

Slide 12

So what was the big problem?

Exploring further

So we realized that

OK, so how hard was it to deploy?

Slide 17

There’ve got to be some downsides

Sample JunOS showing VRF (partial)

"protocols {"

"policy-statement QWEST-IMPORT {"

So do we recommend it?

Thanks!

Questions?