Introduction

5/11/01


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Table of Contents

An Overview

Introduction

MPL(ambda)S

Why bother?

The Optical Network

Optical Network

Optical Network Services

Optical Network Objectives

Definitions

Optical Cross-Connect Model (OXC)

Existing Control Planes

Control Plane

Data Plane

Observation

LSR and OXC Commonalities

LSP and Optical Trail Commonalities

GMPLS: The Unifying Control Plane

Don’t re-invent the wheel

Unified Control Plane Paradigm

Domain specific requirements

Control Channel

Link Management Protocol

Link Bundling

LSP Nesting

Generalised MPLS

Deployment Models

To Conclude …

Generalised MPLS

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