Interconnecting Millions of Endpoints with Segment Routing
RFC 8604, “Interconnecting Millions of Endpoints with Segment Routing”, is an Informational document published in June 2019 by C. Filsfils, S. Previdi, G. Dawra, W. Henderickx, D. Cooper. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes an application of Segment Routing to scale the network to support hundreds of thousands of network nodes, and tens of millions of physical underlay endpoints. This use case can be applied to the interconnection of massive-scale Data Centers (DCs) and/or large aggregation networks. Forwarding tables of midpoint and leaf nodes only require a few tens of thousands of entries. This may be achieved by the inherently scaleable nature of Segment Routing and the design proposed in this document.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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