Cisco Systems Announces Ethernet Over MPLS for Metro Aggregation Services; Features Shown at InteropNet Labs - iLabs - at Networld + Interop 2001 in Las Vegas.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2001 Building on its established portfolio of Multiprotocol Label Switching (networking) Multiprotocol Label Switching - (MPLS) A packet switching protocol developed by the IETF. Initially developed to improve switching speed, other benefits are now seen as being more important. (MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. ) product offerings, Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced its Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) metro-based network solution developed on the Cisco 7600 Optical Services Router (OSR OSR Orchestre de La Suisse Romande OSR OEM Service Release OSR Ontario Student Record OSR Office of School Readiness (various locales) OSR Office of Scientific Research OSR Overseas Service Ribbon OSR Ohio State Reformatory ) platform, the high-performance, IP services-optimized router designed for service providers. To highlight the benefits of MPLS in general, and EoMPLS for metro aggregation specifically, Cisco also announced today that it is participating in the EoMPLS technology demonstration at the InteropNet Labs (iLabs) at Networld + Interop 2001 Las Vegas, at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. , May 6 through May 11. The iLabs is N+I's test bed addressing advanced protocol development and vendor interoperability, and has been instrumental in the development and interoperability testing of MPLS, as well as many other networking technology standards. As service providers proceed with their deployments of high-speed metro area networks, they are finding that their customers require a combination of transparent Local Area Networking (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) services and Internet access services. With the addition of this new EoMPLS feature on the Cisco 7600 OSR, Cisco will be able to satisfy both of these customer requirements using standards-based MPLS technology. "We have installed Cisco's EoMPLS functionality in our test network and have evaluated its functionality," said Steve Baker, Chief Technology Officer of 360networks. "Based on this evaluation, as well as our confidence in Cisco's proven ability to deliver MPLS technology in a variety of products, we intend to deploy Cisco's EoMPLS in our network to meet our customers needs for transparent LAN services." The EoMPLS functionality developed by Cisco is fully compliant with the Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the (IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force ) Martini draft RFC. Some of the features contained in Cisco's implementation of EoMPLS include: -- Support for spanning tree on EoMPLS Virtual LANs (VLANs) to all multiple transport paths for a VLAN. -- Ability to configure traffic shaping on a per VLAN basis. -- Setting MPLS Class of Service (CoS) per VLAN to allow for different service classes per VLAN. -- Link-Services Protocol (LSP) setup using the MPLS Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). "The network demonstration environment provided by iLabs for testing Cisco's EoMPLS features is a great opportunity for service providers to observe this new functionality in action," said Seenu Banda, senior director of Product Marketing in the Internet Systems Business Unit at Cisco. Availability Release of the EoMPLS functionality on the Cisco 7600 OSR is expected in June 2001. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. 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