LDP

LDP definition - telecom
In Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), a protocol used by a Label Edge Router (LER) to distribute labels, or tags, to each Label Switching Router (LSR) in the network core, identifying the treatment that should be afforded all packets in the flow on that particular Label Switched Path (LSP). See also core, flow, label, LER, LSP, LSR, packet, and protocol.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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