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352-001 · Question #362

Refer to the exhibit. You are designing MPLS-TE for this network. The links from Perth to Sydney and from Perth to Adelaide share the same optical fiber in one given segment. Which feature should…

The correct answer is D. Shared Risk Link Groups. Shared Risk Link Groups (SRLG) allow MPLS-TE to identify links sharing a common physical resource so that backup tunnels are never computed over the same optical fiber as the primary tunnel.

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Question

Refer to the exhibit. You are designing MPLS-TE for this network. The links from Perth to Sydney and from Perth to Adelaide share the same optical fiber in one given segment. Which feature should you implement to eliminate the risk that a backup tunnel is installed over the same optical fiber as the primary one?

Exhibit

352-001 question #362 exhibit

Options

  • ADiffServ Traffic Engineering
  • BForwarding Adjacency
  • CMPLS-TE Path Protection
  • DShared Risk Link Groups
  • EMPLS-TE Link Protection

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    17% (5)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    70% (21)
  • E
    7% (2)

Why each option

Shared Risk Link Groups (SRLG) allow MPLS-TE to identify links sharing a common physical resource so that backup tunnels are never computed over the same optical fiber as the primary tunnel.

ADiffServ Traffic Engineering

DiffServ-TE enables differentiated QoS bandwidth pools for traffic classes within MPLS-TE but provides no mechanism to detect or avoid shared physical resources between primary and backup paths.

BForwarding Adjacency

Forwarding Adjacency advertises an MPLS-TE tunnel as an IGP link to enable hierarchical TE topologies but does not constrain path computation away from links sharing physical fiber.

CMPLS-TE Path Protection

MPLS-TE Path Protection pre-computes a standby tunnel end-to-end, but without SRLG the backup path computation has no awareness of shared fiber and may still traverse the same optical segment.

DShared Risk Link GroupsCorrect

SRLG is specifically designed for scenarios where multiple logical links share a common physical medium such as optical fiber. By assigning the Perth-to-Sydney and Perth-to-Adelaide links to the same SRLG, RSVP-TE path computation will exclude any link belonging to that group when selecting a backup path, guaranteeing the backup tunnel avoids the shared fiber segment.

EMPLS-TE Link Protection

MPLS-TE Link Protection provides fast-reroute local repair around a failed link but does not inherently prevent the alternate segment from sharing the same physical fiber unless SRLG constraints are also applied.

Concept tested: MPLS-TE Shared Risk Link Groups for physical path diversity

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/mp_te_path_setup/configuration/xe-16/mp-te-path-setup-xe-16-book/mp-te-srlg.html

Topics

#MPLS-TE#SRLG#path protection#traffic engineering

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