First MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance Meeting Advances Technical Specifications; New Technical Work Items Announced, Board of Directors Elected.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2003 The MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance held its first quarterly meeting as a newly merged organization in Montreal, April 22-24. The membership approved new technical work items addressing SONET over 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. and HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) A data link protocol from ISO for point-to-point communications over serial links. Derived from IBM's SDLC protocol, HDLC has been the basis for numerous protocols including X.25, ISDN, T1, SS7, GSM, CDPD, PPP and others. over MPLS and formulated several technical contributions to ITU-T See ITU. ITU-T - International Telecommunications Union Study Group 17 related to Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. over MPLS. Herbert Bertine of Lucent Technologies, co-chair of the ITU-T Study Group 17, gave the keynote presentation. Bertine focused on the structure and working relationship between the Frame Relay Forum and the ITU-T and the need to continue the cooperative efforts between the MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance and ITU-T Study Group 17. "The cooperative spirit between the MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance and the ITU-T has its roots in the work of both the Frame Relay Forum and the MPLS Forum," said Andrew G Andrew Jonas Günsberg (born 1974), popularly known as Andrew G, is an Australian television and radio presenter who is best known as the co-host of the reality series Australian Idol. He was also the compere of Network Ten's game show The Con Test. . Malis, Vivace Networks, chairman and president of the MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance. "We are encouraged by the open relationship that has been formed to jointly develop protocols and technical specifications for public data networks." The Alliance's Applications & Deployment Working Group introduced two new work items at the quarterly meeting. SONET over MPLS will provide SONET circuit connection over MPLS packet networks, allowing providers to converge on one network infrastructure for multiple services. HDLC over MPLS will provide HDLC service over MPLS packet networks allowing the transport of HDLC framed data over MPLS. "The SONET and HDLC over MPLS projects in the Alliance help to add significant existing services to the service portfolio carried by MPLS networks," said John Yu, Hammerhead hammerhead, common name for a heavy-looking, heronlike bird, Scopus umbretta. Its plumage is brown with light and dark glossy, purplish streaks on the wings and body. It has short legs, partially webbed feet, and a heavy, wide, moderately long, black bill. Systems, MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance technical co-chairman. "The two technologies provide for efficient HDLC and SONET service deployment." "The SONET and HDLC work items build upon the technology developed in the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force PWE PWE Pseudo-Wire Emulation PWE Pevek (Russia) PWE Plane-Wave Expansion PWE Public Works Engineering PWE Parabolic Wave Equation PWE Plasma Wave Experiment PWE Previous Work Experience PWE Prolog Word Expert 3 working group," said Rao Cheruku, Cisco Systems, MPLS/Frame Relay technical committee co-chair. "The goal is to further promote MPLS as a unified networking technology to eventually support any service in any format based on customers' preference and requirements." In addition to its current work items, the Alliance voted to send a liaison to the Metro Ethernet Forum The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) was founded in 2002. It is a non-profit international industry consortium, dedicated to worldwide adoption of Carrier Ethernet networks and services. to update that organization on the Alliance's work addressing Frame Relay/ATM/Ethernet Service Interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. and any-to-any type services over MPLS. In other quarterly meeting developments, the Alliance welcomed packet-ADM maker Corrigent Systems, multiservice switch manufacturer Equipe Communications and communications ICs manufacturer Zarlink Corp. as new members. In response to goals to invest more time and energy on a global scale, the Alliance has created a new position of Vice Chairman, International Development, which will be filled by Ananda Ananda (flourished 6th century BC, India) First cousin and disciple of the Buddha. A monk who served as the Buddha's personal attendant, he became known as the “beloved disciple.” It was Ananda who persuaded the Buddha to allow women to become nuns. Sen Gupta of Agilent Technologies. Other newly elected board members include Andrew Malis of Vivace Networks as Chairman and President, Tom Walsh of Lucent Technologies as Vice Chairman, Doug O'Leary of Verizon as Treasurer, David Sinicrope of Ericsson as Secretary, Rick Wilder of Masergy Communications as Vice President of Technology, Gary Leonard of Riverstone Networks as Vice President of Marketing, and Bernard da Costa of Bell Canada and Joe Kimball of Sprint as board members. About the MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance The MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance is an international industry organization with the mission to advance the recognition and acceptance of MPLS and Frame Relay technologies in the global telecom industry. The Alliance is driving worldwide deployment of multi-vendor MPLS & Frame Relay networks, applications and services through interoperability initiatives, implementation agreements, and educational and marketing resources and programs. For Alliance membership information please contact Alexa Morris, executive director, at 510/608-5914 or via e-mail at amorris@mplsforum.org. Additional information about the MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance is available online at http://www.mplsforum.org/. |
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