Motivation for a P2MP PW One applicability is to deliver a Layer 2 multicast service, that carries multicast frames (encoded using Layer 2 or IP mechanisms) from a multicast source to one or more multicast receivers. P2MP PWs enable a L2VPN to provide a Virtual Private P2MP unidirectional service (VPMS), which may be in addition to the Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) offered by the L2VPN. This is not a VPLS service |