MPLS-TP Delays Keep T-MPLS Alive

Light Reading (Nov 2 2010) Business Ethernet

1. Vendors are lobbying hard to get momentum for the MPLS-TP protocol before T-MPLS, which is supposed to become obsolete, gets too comfortable in its market foothold. The industry does seem to be agreeing on MPLS-TP as a means of Carrier Ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM), so it's not like there's a major standards war brewing. But the MPLS-TP standard remains incomplete. In the meantime, carriers including China Mobile Communications Corp. and NTT Communications Corp. (NYSE: NTT) -- not insubstantial names -- have already deployed T-MPLS, because it was closer to standardization. (Read Full Article)

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