New Revenue Streams With MPLS Service Differentiation

This interoperability event has been organized by the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance and the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC), and hosted by Upperside.

 

The interoperability test scenarios were performed using a multi-vendor network of real MPLS routers, complemented by emulators. Test methodologies were checked and improved throughout the testing. The end result was that the network was successfully constructed. This achievement, along with the advantages and capabilities of this technology, will be demonstrated at the MPLS World Congress in Paris, February 11-13, 2004. The demo was hotstaged at EANTC labs in Berlin, Germany, in January 2004.

 

The test scenarios were designed specifically for this showcase, based upon the experiences of previous interoperability test events. They covered new MPLS capabilities which have not been shown before. The focus was on demonstrating differentiated services over MPLS and MPLS traffic engineering. Multi-vendor MPLS/BGP VPNs and Layer 2 Ethernet VPNs (Martini and VPLS) were configured to prove that services were traffic engineering-enabled and could process differentiated services.

 

To ensure the success of the event, a one week hotstaging event with all the participating vendors was conducted before the MPLS World Congress. It took place at the EANTC (European Advanced Networking Test Center) in Berlin, Germany. The test plan was defined by the Interoperability Working Group of the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance, including EANTC and UNH IOL (University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab).

The following companies and devices demonstrated their interoperability in the test event: