Ten companies will be participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004 designed to showcase the interoperability of MPLS solutions. Participating members demonstrated interoperability of several different MPLS related features and protocols during the Hot Stage test that took place last week at University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) and was further supported by The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). These capabilities include:
- New MPLS based services such as Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service (H-VPLS)
- Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) capabilities of MPLS networks, including the new MPLS feature Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping feature
- Multi-vendor interconnection of ATM PNNI tunneling and S-PVC connection setup across a new MPLS network
- Layer 2 (Martini/PWE3-based Ethernet, Frame Relay and ATM pseudowires) and Layer 3 VPNs
The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance is collaborating with the Multiservice Switching Forum on the SUPERDemo (booth # 21439 – Hall A). Participating companies include Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, CIENA Corp., Cisco Systems, MRV, Native Networks, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs, and World Wide Packets. http://www.mplsforum.org/http://www.msforum.org/