MPLS for the masses

Bgp is the answer, what is the question ?

Service insertions with BGP Flowspec

In my talk at ITNOG7 I presented “BGP FlowSpec Services beyond DDOS Mitigation” with the intention of proposing other uses of flowspec, as too often cataloged exclusively as a tool for managing DDOS.I built two services to achieve egress engineering and bidirectional traffic steering, using a combination of BGP Flowspec and MPLS L3VPN. Finally I described a framework for creating NFV services that can scale on service provider architectures. the slide with the requirements and proposed solution are eloquent: