Overview

The Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) is a signaling protocol that reserves resources on a network. Extended RSVP supports MPLS label distribution and allows resource reservation information to be transmitted with label bindings. This extended RSVP is called RSVP-TE. RSVP-TE is a label distribution protocol for MPLS TE. It distributes MPLS labels and reserves resources on the nodes of a specific path to establish a CRLSP.