VPWS Supported Features

The JUNOSe software implementation of VPWS provides the following features:

Support for the following types of network interfaces between the PE router and the CE device:
- ATM with ATM Adaptation Layer 5 (AAL5) encapsulation
- ATM with virtual channel connection (VCC) cell relay encapsulation
- Cisco HDLC
- Ethernet (Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Ethernet/VLAN)
- Frame Relay
- PPP
Autodiscovery of L2VPN instance members using MP-BGP
L2VPN signaling using MP-BGP to set up and tear down the pseudowires that constitute an L2VPN instance
Multihoming
Inter-AS option A, inter-AS option B, and inter-AS option C services

As with VPLS, VPWS does not support BGP multipaths.