GMU'S Advanced Internet Lab Completes MPLS Bake-off.Business Editors FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2000 The Advanced Internet Lab at George Mason University Named after American revolutionary, patriot and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972. has successfully completed the first Bake-Off testing of Multi-Protocal Label Switching. The Bake-Off 2000 involved the demonstration of interoperability among the participating vendors for the various functionalities of the 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. signaling plane, including LDP, RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. , and traffic engineering features of extensions to RSVP. During the Bake-Off testing. Various features were successfully demonstrated in a multi-vendor environment to the various service providers, sponsors and their guests. In the LDP interoperability demonstration, the participating vendors were Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks(R) and Nortel Networks. The test involved Cisco Systems 7200, Juniper Networks M20 and Nortel Networks Passport 7440. In the RSVP-TE RSVP-TE Resource Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (MPLS) interoperability demonstration, the participating vendors were Avici Systems, Inc., Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The tests involved Avici Systems Terabit Switch Router, Cisco Systems 12008 Gigabit Switch router Cisco's trade name for its high-end layer 3 switch routers. and Juniper Networks M20(TM). The test equipment manufacturers involved in this event were Spirent communications, Ixia communications and Agilent. The purpose of George Mason's Advanced Internet Lab is to conduct research on next generation high-bandwidth Internet core networks. In addition to the initial support provided by UUNET (UUNET Technologies, Inc., Fairfax, VA, www.uunet.net) Founded in 1987, UUNET was the first commercial Internet service provider. Originally offering e-mail and news, it became a full Internet service organization providing dial-up and leased line accounts as well as archive space for , a WorldCom company, the lab is supported by France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Concert, Avici, Alcatel, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Juniper Networks, Marconi Communications, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications (Adtech and Netcom Systems), Ixia and Agilent. For more information about the Advanced Internet Lab visit the web site at http://www.ail.gmu.edu. |
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