Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) is an extension of the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for traffic engineering. It supports the reservation of resources across an

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. Applications running on IP end systems can use RSVP to indicate to other nodes the nature (

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, maximum burst, and so forth) of the packet streams they want to receive. RSVP runs on both

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. RSVP-TE generally allows the establishment of

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(MPLS)

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s (LSPs), taking into consideration network constraint parameters such as available bandwidth and explicit

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(IETF) MPLS working group deprecated Constraint-based Routing Label Distribution Protocol (CR-LDP) and decided to focus purely on RSVP-TE. Operational overhead of RSVP-TE compared to the more widely deployed Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) will generally be higher. This is a classic

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Standards

* - RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels * - The Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Working Group decision on MPLS signaling protocols * - Fast Reroute Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels * - Exclude Routes - Extension to Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) * - Crankback Signaling Extensions for MPLS and GMPLS RSVP-TE * - Inter-Domain MPLS and GMPLS Traffic Engineering—Resource Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions * - Encoding of Attributes for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Path (LSP) Establishment Using Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) * - Node Behavior upon Originating and Receiving Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) Path Error Messages * - Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Protocol Extensions for Multi-Layer and Multi-Region Networks (MLN/MRN)

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