Overview Motivation Provide robust MPLS services to customers Can offer end-to-end paths using LDP Can’t offer end-to-end paths using RSVP extensions Offer CE-to-CE MPLS TE LSPs between customer sites Guarantee bandwidth, Provide fast protection, diversely routed path …… Provide all of the benefits of a L3VPN Offer vrf instance per customer to avoid security issues Customers can not forward packets through the service provider’s general forwarding instance. They can not join the service provider’s routing domain and MPLS signaling domain. Assign address space that is unique only to a VPN |