MPLS-TP
- MPLS-TP OAM and Resilency mechanisms
- OTM (MPLS way or Ethernet way)
- Ring protection
Access and Core: Packet Transport Technologies
- Lightweight MPLS to the CE
- Role of MPLS pseudo-wires in the access
- Role of MPLS in access broadband networks (MPLS to the DSLAM)
- Packet transport in the aggregation infrastructure
- Packet transport in core networks
- Technical challenges in packet transport -- performance monitoring,
provisioning, QoS, resilience
- Technologies for overcoming the above challenges
MPLS in Mobile Backhaul:
- MPLS and WiMAX/LTE
- Motivation for MPLS in the RAN
- Scaling MPLS and Pseudowires
- Lightweight MPLS and Pseudowire based aggregation
- Options for packet timing and synchronisation
- Role of MPLS in cellular mobile networks
Multicast Issues:
- MPLS Architecture enhancements for multicast
- MPLS point-to-multipoint LSPs
- MPLS point-to-multipoint OAM
- MPLS point-to-multipoint LSP Hierarchy
- Multicast in L3 VPNs - challenges, new solutions
- Multicast in VPLS - challenges, new solutions
- Multicast in L2 VPNs - challenges, new solutions
- Can LDP and RSVP-TE multicast co-exist in same network?
Service Providers Deployments Reports:
- VPLS Multicast Deployment
- VPN deployments
- Experience in MPLS Services scalability
- Experience in managing MPLS networks
- VPLS vs LAN Emulation: what makes the former more successful than the later
- Experiences with FRR, Diff-Serv aware TE
- Deployment of hierarchical LSPs
- Operational challenges of running MPLS networks
- Migrating legacy services to MPLS
- Transition efforts case studies
- Emulating ATM over MPLS
- Deployment of Layer 2 VPNs
- Deployment of MPLS Point-to-multipoint LSPs
- VPN Multicast Deployment
MPLS VPNs and Pseudo-Wires:
- MPLS for offering L2 and L3 pseudo-wires VPNs
- Traffic Engineering issues
- Ethernet services using MPLS
- Scalability
- VPN security
- Future trends : new architectures
- Mixed or Hybrid VPN environments: how to integrate IPSEC VPN & MPLS VPN?
MPLS in the Enterprise:
- Enterprise best-practices
- Deployment experiences
- Should Enterprise have more control over path their traffic take in
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Quality of Service and Resiliency:
- QoS strategies for L2/L3 VPNs
- Fault tolerance/graceful restart
- MPLS guaranteed bandwidth
- Fault isolation and resource partitioning in multi-service
MPLS networks
Video over MPLS:
- Video Transport in Metro/Aggregation
- Video aware Networks
- Improving Video Quality of Experience
Management and Planning for MPLS:
- Application of policy management to MPLS
- Provisioning/monitoring/trouble-shooting
- LSP provisioning management
- LSP verification tools/procedures
- SLA verification/monitoring
- Planning tools for designing, modeling, and simulating
MPLS-based networks and services
- Network management for MPLS - practices and tools
- Billing in MPLS networks
- Setting accurate SLAs,
- Verifying negotiated SLAs
- SLAs for MPLS-based Layer2 VPNs
GMPLS and Optical Networking:
- Current standard issues
- Lambda switching
- Optical VPNs
- Signaling at the edge between optical access devices/metro
DWDM devices
- Applicability of GMPLS in non-optical technology areas
Performance Issues:
- Scaling requirements for systems and protocols
- Impact of current infrastructure or system limitations
- Experience in Multicast MPLS deployment performance
Inter-provider and Inter-domain Case Studies:
- Inter-domain and inter-provider 2547 VPNs
- Inter-domain and inter-provider VPLS
- Inter-domain and inter-provider pseudo-wires
- Inter-domain and inter-provider L2 VPNs
Reports from Interoperability Testing:
- Lessons learnt
- Issues found
- Guidance for MPLS development going forward - for standards, vendors, and providers
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