MPLS Forum Stages First Public Multi-Vendor GMPLS Demo; GMPLS Demo Scheduled For Next Generation Networks Show In Boston; Seven Companies To Participate in GMPLS Milestone Event.Business Editors & Technology Writers Next Generation Networks 2002 BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2002 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. Forum announced today the industry's first public multi-vendor Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching) In a WDM optical networking system, it is the ability to route a data transmission based on the wavelength of light that carries it. ) interoperability demonstration. A milestone technical event, the GMPLS proof of concept demonstration is scheduled for October 14 - 15 from 3 pm - 8:30 pm at the Next Generation Networks (NGN (Next Generation Networks) An umbrella term for mixed voice and data networks running over the IP protocol. See IP Multimedia Subsystem. ) trade show in the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA. Seven companies will participate in the GMPLS demonstration. For more information about the GMPLS test event and a copy of the white paper: www.mplsforum.org. "The GMPLS test event is a serious milestone in advancing GMPLS standards from concept to reality and, eventually, carrier deployment," said 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, vice president, Marketing, MPLS Forum and product manager, Agilent Technologies. "GMPLS promises to simplify network operations leading to reduced operations expenditures (OPEX See CAPEX. ) for carriers. Through the work of groups like the MPLS Forum, interoperability testing will continue to facilitate the development of the technical specifications as they mature." This interoperability demonstration validates the speed and ease of provisioning enabled by GMPLS in a live, multi-vendor network. GMPLS is a set of network protocols, under development by 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 ) that provides a common control plane for devices that switch in packet, wavelength, time-division multiplexing and fiber networks. The GMPLS demonstration will show multi-vendor interoperability for the GMPLS RSVP-TE RSVP-TE Resource Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (MPLS) protocol and will be validated by sending traffic across an independent OC48 data plane. This multi-vendor GMPLS demonstration follows five days of testing activity conducted at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab. Participating vendors and products include: Agilent's Router Tester 900; Cisco's 12404 Router; Data Connection (DCL (1) (Digital Command Language) Digital's standard command language for the VMS operating system on its VAX series. (2) (Data Compression L ) DC-MPLS, DC-OSPF and DC-LMP software; Juniper Networks M10 router; NetPlane's LTCS-Optical; NetTest's GMPLS interEMULATOR and Sycamore's SN 16000 Intelligent Optical Switch. About The MPLS Forum The MPLS Forum is an international industry organization driving worldwide deployment of multi-vendor MPLS networks, applications and services. The Forum accomplishes this through interoperability initiatives, implementation agreements and education programs. For more information about The MPLS Forum, please contact Alexa Morris, MPLS Forum Executive Director, at (510) 608-5914 or via e-mail at amorris@mplsforum.org. Additional information regarding Forum membership and the Forum's mission is available online at http://www.mplsforum.org/. About NGN Now in its 16th year, NGN is the place to go to find out where the Net is going next. At NGN, elite industry leaders and pioneering users come to speak, listen to one another and debate the issues whose outcome will determine the immediate future of the Internet, as well as broadband, wireless, voice and Internet security. For additional up-to-date information, or to register for a free Expo pass, please visit http://www.bcr.com/ngn/ For media registration, please contact Jennifer Clark, Jennifer.clark@key3media.com. |
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