Industry Information

ATM/Frame Relay Integration

• Migration Strategies for IP Service Growth: Cell-switched MPLS or IP-routed MPLS
  Authored by: Juniper Networks
  Provides an overview of alternative strategies for MPLS implementation
• Q&A: Moving ATM & SONET Features Into IP Routers
  Authored by: Cisco Systems
  Q&A with Cisco Architect and MPLS Working Group co-chair George Swallow on MPLS support for ATM & SONET services

Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) and Optical Networking:

• The Movement to Deploy MPLS
  Authored by: Jim Metzler
• ECI Adds MPLS Functionality, Enhances Multiservice Access Node Series
  Authored by: ECI
• MPLS and ASTN
  Authored by: Nortel Networks
  Describes how to use MPLS signaling for control of ASTN networks
• MPLS in Optical Networks
  Authored by: Data Connection
  White paper describing how MPLS is used to provision optical networks
• Optical Hub
  Collection of news and white papers on optical technologies
• Recent AT&T Optical Networking Publications
  Authored by: AT&T
  A collection of papers on a variety of topics related to MPLS and GMPLS in optical environments
• Experiments in Fast Restoration using GMPLS in Optical/Electronic Mesh Networks
  Authored by: AT&T Labs
  Overview of experiments in building highly available GMPLS-based networks

LANS & WANS

• MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war
  Authored by: Carolyn Duffy Marsan
  

  IETF warns of Internet "train wreck" 

Miscellaneous:

• Making Ethernet Services a Profitable Reality
  Authored by: Fujitsu
• Connecting IPv6 Islands with IPv4 MPLS
  Authored by: Juniper Networks
  Describes how MPLS can be used on an IPv4 network to connect IPv6 domains
• MPLS
  Overview and links from Webopedia
• Multi Layer Routing -
  Authored by: Toshiba
  Links to all internet drafts and RFC's on various Layer 2 and Layer 3 integration technologies including MPLS, ARIS, Tag Switching and Toshiba's CSR

Quality of Service

• Simulating Classes of Service over an IP/MPLS Backbone
  Very detailed case study on provisioning of QoS capable VPN services

Resiliency

• Protection & Restoration in MPLS Networks
  Authored by: Data Connection
  White Paper on deploying highly available MPLS-based networks

Testing, Management, Modeling & Interoperability

• VPN Traffic Explorer
  Authored by: Packet Design
  Comprehensive MPLS VPN Management Visibility
• MPLS WAN Explorer
  Authored by: Packet Design
  Enterprise Network Management Visibility through the MPLS VPN "Cloud"
• Cutting Through the Complexity of MPLS Performance Monitoring
  Authored by: NetScout Systems, Inc.
  Networked Application Visability Where and When You Need It, Multi-Protocol Label Switching and nGenus

Traffic Engineering

• A Comparions of MPLS Traffic Engineering Initiatives
  Authored by: NetPlane Systems
  Provides an overview and comparison of MPLS-TE using RSVP-TE and CR-LDP
• Deploying MPLS Traffic Engineering
  Authored by: Juniper Networks
  An overview of the process for deploying traffic engineering using MPLS

VPNs

• Multpoint Bridged Ethernet using MPLS Virtual Pricate LAN Services
  Authored by: Verizon Business
• A Comparison Between IPSec and Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Networks
  Authored by: Cisco Systems
  White paper comparing various approaches for creating IP-based VPNs

Wireless

• QoS Implementation for MPLS-based Wireless Networks
  Discussions of how to provide QoS for MPLS-over-Wireless