UNH InterOperability Laboratory Completes GMPLS Tests

The UNH InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) completed a week-long series of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) tests designed to demonstrate some of the technology's newest features in a multi-vendor network. The testing focused on optical signaling, routing and management (OSRM). It probed the functionality of various aspects of hierarchical LSP Setup and Teardown (graceful), Traffic Engineering capabilities in GMPLS such as OSPF-TE, Constrained Shortest Path First (CSPF), LSP re-optimization, Bandwidth on Demand and Multi-layer Cut Through. During several hours of the test event, the participants accessed the public Internet across a provisioned Layer 1 VPN using e-mail and Web browsing. The testing involved both IPv4 and IPv6.



Participants included NTT and optical equipment and IP routing companies Agilent Technologies, Juniper Networks, Lambda Optical Systems, Navtel Communications, Sycamore Networks, and Tellabs. http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/osrm/