Intranet, Extranet

MPLS-VPNs

Basic Intranet Full Mesh

C CC
CC C

Customer CE
Site 3

C CC
CC C
C CC
CC C
Customer Intranet VRF
Customer CE
Site 1

Customer CE
Site 2

Basic Intranet Full Mesh

Each site has full routing knowledge of all other
sites (of same VPN)
Each CE announces his own address space
MP-BGP VPN-IPv4 updates are propagated
between PEs
Routing is optimal in the backbone
Each route has the BGP Next-Hop closest to the destination

No site is used as central point for connectivity

Basic Extranet Partial Peering

Customer 2
Site B
C1a
VRF C1a
C2b C1a
C2a
C2b
C2b C2a

C2b
C2a
C2b
C2b C2a

VRF

C1b
C1a
C1b
C1b C1a

Customer 2
Site A

C2b
C2b C1b C2b
C1a
C1b
C1b C1a
Customer 1
Site A
Import/Export of routes

Customer 1
Site B
VRF