Evaluation of routing protocol OSPFv3 on the link PE-CE on MPLS/VPN environments

The paper must have abstract. The rapid growth of networks base on IP, and the current challenge posed by the technological deployment of IPv6 and annexed applications, challenges that must confront the Internet Service Provider and have stimulated the development for rigorous researches on the topic. The Internet Service Providers ISP offer infrastructure for implementation of virtual private network VPN, where is fundamental the definition of routing schemas between the border route of client CE and the provider PE. In this sense, have been proposed different schemas where the new protocols as Open Short Path First version 3 OSPFv3 have a key role. In the context of VPN, the routing protocol BGP is used to distribute the client’s path, the multi-protocol label switching MPLS is used to send the information packages through the network core in tunnel mode. Originally, only IPv4 was supported and expanded after support OSPFv2 and VPN IPv6. Based on the new specifications in order to support OSPFv3 as a routing protocol PE-CE and the current technological infrastructures begin the process of IPv6 deployment, these elements driving this research which evaluate the performance of routing protocol OSPFv3 on border scenarios MPLS/VPN/IPv6.