VLL Service Considerations
Page 194 7705 SAR OS Services Guide
Secondary Spoke SDPs Only
If a primary spoke SDP is not defined, up to four secondary spoke SDPs can be defined. The 
user can configure the precedence of each secondary PW to indicate the order in which 
secondary PWs are activated. The secondary PW with the highest precedence is selected 
first. If two or more secondary spoke SDPs are assigned the same precedence, the 
7705 SAR OS selects the secondary path that is operationally up and has the lowest spoke 
SDP identifier. There is no revertive behavior between secondary paths, which means that a 
secondary path will not switch to another secondary path of higher precedence if one 
becomes available. 
The use of four secondary spoke SDPs is illustrated in Figure 37, where:
• spoke SDP-1 goes over S-PE-1 to T-PE1 (red path) (S-PE is a switching PE and 
T-PE is a terminating PE)
• spoke SDP-2 goes over S-PE-1 to T-PE2 (green path)
• spoke SDP-3 goes over S-PE-2 to T-PE1 (violet path)
• spoke SDP-4 goes over S-PE-2 to T-PE2 (orange path)
.
Figure 37: Pseudowire Redundancy with Four Spoke SDPs
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Access
Redundancy
MC-LAG
7705 T-PE 3
RNC
7450
7450
7750 S-PE 1
7750 S-PE 2
7750 S-PE 3
7750 S-PE 4
7750 T-PE 1
7750 T-PE 2
7450
Spoke SDP-2
Spoke-SDP-1
Spoke-SDP-3
Spoke-SDP-4
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