Intelligent routing using OER or PfR

Hey guys, today i want to touch on a technology that i personally feel has been slept on. Though it is new, it has not received a fair share of publicity that it deserves. In my many years of being a network engineer and interacting a lot with routing and switching technologies, i must admit that there were quite a number of challenges that even the best dynamic routing protocols couldn't solve. One of them being the ability for the router to make proactive routing decisions based on the quality (latency, jitter,delay, packet loss etc) of a link. Worry no more. With the advent of Cisco PfR or traditionally called OER (Optimized Edge Routing) your router gets the power of making informed routing decisions irrespective of what the dynamic routing protocol says. PfR actually commands more power than the DRPs in the fact that it can change the metric of a DRP-learnt route and give it a higher preference. In the next few days i will break it down on the scenario that i had and how i leveraged PfR to sort me out. So keep a tab on this blog.