MPLS control plane

While Telecom service providers were migrating from ATM to MPLS based aggregation, MPLS standard has moved inside to impact the core transport Network. MPLS-TP extensions have been recently the main focus in SDOs to push MPLS principles into the core network with its simplicity and its low cost in addition to increasing the OAM facilities for such revolutionary packet based protocol.

MPLS control plane is no longer only Label Distribution Protocol combined with RSVP-TE for fast reroute. MPLS control plane now offers a wide variety of services such Auto Provisioning, End-to-End and Segment Protection and Restoration scenarios with low level of dedicated resources, global concurrent optimization.
This is accomplished through the use of PCE server to avoid bottlenecks and unbalanced networks, an optimization with nesting and stitching combinations along with interconnections capabilities.

Marben offers strategic software components to ease equipment vendor requirement to upgrade their control plane to the next level of requirements:

• A complete pseudo wire control plane,
• An MPLS/MPLS-TP control plane based on E2E and segment GMPLS P&R and dedicated OAM,
• A preintegrated offer for 1+1 protection for an IP/MPLS-based DCN.