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Application Example
Potentially a large number of PCEs in the backbone area
Manual config would lead to the configuration of N PCEs per PCC…
(N can be > 50 in operational networks)
Automatically PCE Discovery => Each PCC discovers all PCEs

Multi-area network with 1 backbone area and N areas
Multi-area TE-LSP placement with inter-PCE communication
PCE function distributed on several ABRs
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ABR
ABR acting as PCE
R1
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PPT Version