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In what aspectes BGP-LU and Traditional BGP with MPLS LDP are different?

jahangir7g
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What is the BGP-LU & what are difference between BGP-LU & tradiational BGP with MPLS LDP and benefits of BGP LU?

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Giuseppe Larosa
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Hello @jahangir7g ,

BGP-LU = BGP labelled unicast allows to use a special purpose address family to exchange IPv4 prefixes with labels.

Labels are taken by BGP from the node MPLS label space.

The advantage of BGP-LU is to avoid to use LDP for exchanging MPLS  labels in addition to a unicast routing protocol.

 

BGP-LU can be used in multi MPLS SP scenarios like inter AS VPN or Carrier Supporting Carrier CSC with the above advantage of protocol reduction.

BGP-LU is also used in seamless MPLS within a single big SP as a way to build a more efficient MPLS network.

With BGP-LU the typically exchanged prefixes are loopback addresses of PE nodes within the local AS in order to allow inter -AS scenarios or CSC scenarios.

End to end LSPs are actually formed by multiple sections that are joined stitched by ASBR node BGP LU speaker that typically uses next-hop self towards internal PE nodes in order to make this join operation.

The end result may be a saving of states #LSPs on the inner core devices that do not need to store actually all the possible end to end LSPs.

This latest aspect can also be achieved with a feature called LDP tunneling that in Cisco implementation requires to activate LDP on MPLS TE tunnels (unidirectionals)

 

Hope to help

Giuseppe

 

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Giuseppe Larosa
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Hello @jahangir7g ,

BGP-LU = BGP labelled unicast allows to use a special purpose address family to exchange IPv4 prefixes with labels.

Labels are taken by BGP from the node MPLS label space.

The advantage of BGP-LU is to avoid to use LDP for exchanging MPLS  labels in addition to a unicast routing protocol.

 

BGP-LU can be used in multi MPLS SP scenarios like inter AS VPN or Carrier Supporting Carrier CSC with the above advantage of protocol reduction.

BGP-LU is also used in seamless MPLS within a single big SP as a way to build a more efficient MPLS network.

With BGP-LU the typically exchanged prefixes are loopback addresses of PE nodes within the local AS in order to allow inter -AS scenarios or CSC scenarios.

End to end LSPs are actually formed by multiple sections that are joined stitched by ASBR node BGP LU speaker that typically uses next-hop self towards internal PE nodes in order to make this join operation.

The end result may be a saving of states #LSPs on the inner core devices that do not need to store actually all the possible end to end LSPs.

This latest aspect can also be achieved with a feature called LDP tunneling that in Cisco implementation requires to activate LDP on MPLS TE tunnels (unidirectionals)

 

Hope to help

Giuseppe

 

in simple words friend 
intra AS we use LDP between the router to exchange the labels 
inter AS we use BGP between the edge of AS routers to exchange the labels

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