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What does CE, PE, P, LSP, LSR mean in a MPLS environment? kindly describe each one in brief.

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Question added by Sunny Suresh Naik , Sr. Network Engineer , United Telecoms Limited
Date Posted: 2016/01/07
mohammed yasein
by mohammed yasein , N/A , N/A

CE = customer edge normally unaware of mpls labeling 

PE = provider edge is the egress and ingress for the mpls domain , it remove labels before sending them to CE and add labels to traffic received from CE

P = provider , mpls devices int the core of the mpls domain , forward traffic based on labels

LSP = Label Switch path , the path the labeled packet will take

LSR = Label switch router , a device that is aware of mpls labeling