Multiservice Switching Forum Teams with MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance

The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) and the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance plan to collaborate on two interoperability test events in 2004. These include joint technical work on an MPLS and Frame Relay demonstration at SUPERCOMM in June, as well as at the MSF's Global MSF Interoperability (GMI 2004) event in October.



The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance will lead the effort at SUPERCOMM, a live, multi-vendor demonstration of QoS-enabled Layer 2&3 VPNs and VPLS services on a MPLS core network. MSF members will be invited to participate in the SUPERCOMM event, with a particular focus on work to deliver VoIP services and applications over an MPLS network.



The MSF will continue to lead the GMI 2004 event, which will culminate in a global extended test event conducted simultaneously in Europe, North America and Asia. Hosted by BT, KT, NTT and Qwest, GMI 2004 is scheduled for October 2004 and will showcase a deployable Next Generation carrier-scale telephony network based on an IP core, with services, applications and advanced QoS and security. MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance members will be invited to participate in GMI 2004, focusing on the creation of a traffic-engineered MPLS network that will run MSF QoS-based applications and services. http://www.msforum.org/http://www.mplsforum.org/