A network architect must redesign a service provider edge, where multiservice and multitenant PEs are currently present. Which design feature should be minimized in the new design to achieve…

Bridging may introduce complexity and broadcast domain issues but is a specific service capability rather than the primary reliability risk in a multitenant PE redesign.

In a multiservice, multitenant PE environment, fate sharing occurs when diverse customers and services are consolidated onto the same physical device; a software crash, hardware failure, or misconfiguration on that PE disrupts all tenants at once. Minimizing fate sharing - by separating tenants or services across independent failure domains - ensures that a failure in one domain does not propagate to others, directly improving reliability and availability for all customers.

Redundancy is a core reliability mechanism and should be maximized, not minimized, in a service provider edge design.

Unicast overlay routing such as MPLS L3VPN is the foundational technology enabling multitenant separation and scalable PE design and should not be minimized.