Name Author Last Update Brief Overview of Document
Presentations
IPv4 Consortium Consortium 11/05/2004 A presentation that contains information about the Benefits and Capabilities of the IPv4 Consortium.
Overview of Internet Protocol Ben Schultz 6/2001 An overview of the workings of the Internet Protocol.
Specific Routing Protocols Consortium 6/2001Please see document for more information
External Links
Introduction to TCP/IP PC Lube and Tune 2/2/1995 An Introduction to TCP/IP
IP Address Tables Other No Date Information about the IP address tables for Class A, Class B and Class C networks.
Understanding IP Addressing 3COM No Date Discusses the aspects of IP Addressing.
comp.protocols.tcp-ip Other 6/28/05 An open-discussion newsgroup which covers TCP-IP protocols.
comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Other 6/28/05 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains is the Usenet newsgroup for discussion on issues relating to the Domain Name System (DNS).
Working Group Charters
Inter-Domain Routing (IDR) Charter Other 6/27/05 The Charter for the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. Contains links to current drafts and Request For Comments (RFC) papers.
IS-IS for IP Internets Charter Other 4/20/05 Charter for the Intermediate Systems to Intermediate Systems (IS-IS) Working Group. Contains links to current drafts and Request For Comments (RFC) pages.
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Charter Other 6/2/05 Charter for the Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Working Group. Contains links to current drafts and Request For Comments (RFC) pages.
Virtual Router Redundancy Procol (VRRP) Charter Other 6/24/04 Charter for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Working Group. Contains links to current drafts and Request For Comments (RFC) pages.
MPLS - White Papers
MPLS World Congress 2006 Jambi Ganbar, Jonathan Morin, Cartsen Rossenhoevel, and Gabriele Schrenk Feb 2006 The MPLS World Congress 2006 interoperability event included 15 different companies and was hosted by the EANTC and UNH-IOL and was endorsed by the MPLS Forum and Frame Relay Alliance, held in Berlin, Germany. This event focused the convergence of both old and new MPLS services such as VPLS, BGP-VPNs, Layer 2 VPNs while still being guaranteed by Fast Reroute and MPLS Diff Serve. The event was especially successful in focusing on converged services as it included all classes of MPLS devices.
MOSRM July 2005 Henry He, Takumi Ohba, Kaori Shimizu, Chris Volpe, John Allen, Ankur Chadda, and Scott Larsonk 2005 The third UNH-IOL OSRM test event was designed with a new focus on the failure recovery mechanisms of a GMPLS network. The event provided a vendor-neutral setting that gave participants an opportunity to assess interoperability and valuable feedback to assist them in refining their implementations. Testing included interconnected products demonstrating the functionality of various aspects of explicit route and label control to set up GMPLS traffic engineered most suitable path, control channel failure recovery, data plane failure recovery by multi-layer traffic engineering, end-to-end protection in signaling, and the ability of GMPLS to manage diverse networks with increased scalability.
MPLS World Congress 2005 Carsten Rossenhoevel, Michael Pergament, and Jonathan Morin 2005 The second MPLS World Congress interoperability event included 10 different companies and was hosted by the MPLS Forum and Frame Relay Alliance at the EANTC labs in Berlin, Germany. The demonstration, held at the MPLS World Congress in Paris, proved that MPLS Layer 2 Ethernet-based VPNs are ready for large scale deployment. Also demonstrated were minimal MPLS ping and traceroute implementations.
OSRM September 2004 Henry He, Chris Volpe, Takumi Ohba, Kaori Shimizu, Yumiko Kawashima, and Tom DiMicelli. 2005 The second UNH-IOL OSRM test event included seven different companies and was designed in collaboration with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) and the participants to validate and prove GMPLS functionality in a multi-vendor network. This collaboration generated an exceptionally realistic and demanding test suite in line with service providers\' operational demands, rather than simple conformance or interoperability scenarios.
Super Demo 2004 MFA and MSF Supercomm 2004 SuperDemo 2004 was the product of a partnering of the Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) with the MPLS & FR alliance. Eleven companies participated in expanded testing including advanced service provider applications. The collaboration of the MSF and the MFA took the meaning of success to another level in the industry. The Multi-Vendor MPLS infrastructure was constructed for stability and reliability. The Demonstration of VoIP services across this network clearly conveyed a feeling of resilience.
MPLS World Congress 2004 MFA, EANTC MPLS World Congress 2004 This interoperability evaluation focused on the transport of differentiated services on a multi-vendor MPLS backbone supporting MPLS traffic engineering. The MPLS World Congress 2004 demonstrated differentiated services over MPLS and MPLS traffic engineering. Multi-vendor MPLS/BGP VPN\'s and Layer 2 Ethernet VPN\'s (Martini and VPLS) were configured to prove that services were traffic engineering-enabled and could process differentiated services.
OSRM January 2004 Chris Volpe, Ichiro Inoue, Kaori Shimizu, Yumiko Kawashima, and Tom Dimicelli OSRM January 2004 The first OSRM event, held at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), provided an aggressive carrier-class environment for GMPLS testing including several GMPLS interworking scenarios that had not been achieved in previous multi-vendor test settings. The testing, conducted by the UNH-IOL OSRM test group, involved a variety of test cases that focused on stability testing, control channel fault handling and data channel failure recovery.
SuperDemo 2003 MFA Supercomm 2003 SuperDemo 2003 was the worlds most advanced and comprehensive live test of multiple MPLS services operating concurrently across a multi-vendor MPLS network. The MPLS/FR Alliance SuperDemo included 14 different companies showcasing MPLS services and features such as VPLS, ATM/FR/Ethernet over MPLS, BGP MPLS VPNs and Fast re-route.
The Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2002 Multiservice Switching Forum GMI 2002 GMI 2002 was the Multiservice Switching Forum\'s first multi-vendor, multi-provider global interoperability event. Held at three simultaneous locations, (BTexact Technologies R&T, Ipswich England. NTT Musashino R&D, Tokyo Japan. UNH Interoperability Laboratory, New Hampshire USA) the event proved that vendors can produce multi-service system products that deliver services Carriers and other providers need in a multi-vendor environment.
Achieving UNI and NNI Interoperability Gerry Baranano, Tom DiMicelli, Nic Larkin, Dimitrios Pendarakis and Amy Wang OIF 2003 Carriers and network service providers require cost effective dynamic provisioning systems and interoperable network solutions to deliver next generation intelligent optical networks. Control plane interoperability promises to simplify integration of different technologies and equipment as well as facilitate the introduction of new services. The OIF has adopted an evolutionary approach to the application of control plane technologies that allows the interconnection of the transport network and its clients, via the User Network Interface (OIF UNI 1.0) or different domains of the transport network, via the Network Network Interface (OIF NNI). The OIF will showcase the first transport networking solution integrating UNI 1.0 and NNI through the public interoperability demonstration at OFC 2003. After successfully completing extensive testing in the closed-door environment participated by twelve vendors, the demonstration highlights the feasibility and benefits of the OIF\'s pioneering UNI and NNI implementation agreements. This industry significant milestone achieves dynamic, end-to-end connection management between client devices and transport network elements in a multi-domain, multi-node environment. The test topology includes a wide range of network elements such as IP routers, optical cross connects, add/drop multiplexer, protocol test equipment and network software providers. The success of the interoperability demonstration among those participating vendors highlights the technical merit of the OIFs implementation agreements, and validates that the OIF fosters an environment of cooperation where interoperability can become a reality.
SuperDemo 2002 MPLS Forum Supercomm 2002 SuperDemo 2002 was the largest MPLS interoperability event ever undertaken in the industry. With 21 participating companies, MPLS was taken beyond a working technology to a position that is well backed by the leading innovators in the telecom industry. This was a cooperative event,organized by the MPLS Forum, the N+I iLabs MPLS team and the IOL MPLS Services Consortium. This union resulted in a technical and marketing success.
GMPLS Interoperability Event MPLS Forum NGN 2002 The GMPLS Demo at NGN 2002 brought together seven equipment manufacturers to hold the worlds first GMPLS Interoperability test event. The Demo was staged through an intensive 5 days of testing at the UNH Interoperability Lab and proved that GMPLS is well on its way to becoming a key part of the data-optimized optical network of tomorrow.
MPLS - Theses
Quality of Service Testing Methodology Ankur Chadda December 2004 Typically, a network service provider offers best-effort service to customers and Quality of Service (QoS) is provided only by network over provisioning. When traffic bursts cause congestion, this default approach does not always provide an acceptable solution. As the trend in networking is convergence of voice, video and data, it is important to differentiate traffic into high and low priority classes through QoS mechanisms. To deliver differentiated QoS, the routers utilize classification and sometimes remarking of the traffic. Based on service agreements with the customer, a certain class of traffic is then given more resources by the router. Evaluation of the results of these methods and approaches on the network performance is very important to device designers, network evaluators, network administrators, network operators and others involved. To study the effects of QoS solutions/techniques on the traffic, methods for testing need to be developed. The objective of this thesis is to propose methods of measuring QoS metrics like throughput, latency, and jitter for different types of traffic through a device. Classification and remarking were observed to put extra load on a device. For some devices, the performance deteriorates when classification and remarking are enabled. Throughput was seen to drop for classification and remarking in some cases. In multiple instances, latency and jitter increased for classification and remarking. There are multiple ways of measuring jitter which were also discussed in the methodology development. It was also observed that some definitions which might seem better from a research perspective are not always available to measure or widely used in the industry. Based on the study it was concluded that service/network providers will have to take care while providing QoS to the customers in order avoid the scenarios discussed here.
MPLS - Tutorial Links
MPLS Working Group Charter N/A 2005 Links to MPLS related RFCs and Internet-Drafts
Layer 3 Switching using MPLS N/A 2000 None
MPLS for Linux N/A 2005 None
The MPLS Resource Center N/A 2005 None
MPLS Software (DC-MPLS) N/A 2005 None
Traffic Engineering with Multiprotocol Label Switching N/A 2000 None
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