There was a talk at Apricot this afternoon that might be of interest to
folks in PNG and the Pacific. I'm sure the video and slides will be
available soon if you missed it.
The talk was on "IP Flexalgo". It provides a coarse grain traffic
engineering solution that doesn't require MPLS and just uses the IGP to
engineer traffic paths.
One of the potential use cases where it might make sense in the Pacific
is routing latency insensitive traffic via a cheaper satellite path if
you are trying to balance use of both submarine fibre and satellite. For
example, you could set up routing for a cache fill so that it prefers
the satellite path while other traffic takes the submarine fibre (also
applicable if you have access to different satellite technologies with
different characteristics).
Also if you have a backup path that doesn't have the same capacity as
the primary path you could engineer it so some routes don't have access
to the secondary path in case of a failure of the primary.
It is currently at Internet draft stage (authors from Juniper and Cisco)
so it's not clear when it will make it to production code but it's
possibly something to watch out for (or discuss with your vendor) if
it's of interest.
Regards,
Mark.
