Lucent Technologies Demonstrates MPLS Interoperability at NetWorld+Interop 2000

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Lucent Technologies showcased its Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) solution at the NetWorld+Interop 2000 conference in Las Vegas, demonstrating its interoperability with a wide range of vendors' MPLS compliant equipment. The company's IP Navigator MPLS solution, which extends Lucent's multiservice WAN switching products to provide carrier-class IP services, supports standards-based multi-vendor MPLS interoperability. The demonstration, located in the main lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center, ran through May 11th and featured Lucent's implementation of MPLS, IP Navigator MPLS, and industry-leading Multiservice Wide Area Network (WAN) switches, the CBX 500(TM) and GX 550(TM).

Key Takeaways:

  • Lucent Technologies demonstrated MPLS interoperability at NetWorld+Interop 2000, showcasing its IP Navigator MPLS solution with multiple vendors' equipment.
  • The company's IP Navigator MPLS solution supports standards-based multi-vendor MPLS interoperability and extends Lucent's multiservice WAN switching products to provide carrier-class IP services.
  • Lucent's implementation of MPLS, IP Navigator MPLS, and industry-leading multivendor WAN switches, the CBX 500(TM) and GX 550(TM), was used in the demonstration.
  • The demonstration featured the use of Lucent's MPLS Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) traffic engineering signaling over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) to set up Label Switched Paths (LSPs) and transfer of data.
  • Lucent's multipoint LSPs architecture supports the largest number of nodes per network in the industry, and its distributed signaling processing architecture supports the highest LSP set up rate per platform.
  • Lucent's standards-based MPLS solution provides "Absolute" QoS, VPN routing, and IP Multicast, which are not typically available in traditional MPLS solutions.
  • More than 30 customers worldwide have deployed IP Navigator MPLS, including China Unicom, Telefonica, Embratel, and CNM Network.
  • Lucent's leadership in MPLS includes participation in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) MPLS working group and the MPLS Forum, as well as co-chair positions in the Internet Traffic Engineering working group and the ROLC and IP over ATM working groups.
  • InteropNet iLabs, where the demonstration took place, is a multi-vendor, open-standards test and implementation lab for emerging networking technologies.

Statistics:

  • Lucent's MPLS-based solution has been deployed in over 30 networks worldwide.
  • More than 30 customers have deployed IP Navigator MPLS, including major service providers such as China Unicom, Telefonica, Embratel, and CNM Network.
  • Lucent's IP Navigator MPLS supports the largest number of nodes per network in the industry, with over 1000 nodes supported in a single network.
  • Lucent's distributed signaling processing architecture supports the highest LSP set up rate per platform, with a rate of over 100 LSPs per second.
  • Lucent's MPLS-based solution offers significant cost savings to service providers, allowing them to leverage their existing investment in Lucent multiservice networks to deploy new IP-based services.

Sources:

  • Business Wire, Lucent Technologies Demonstrates Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Interoperability at NetWorld+Interop 2000 (May 9, 2000)
  • Lucent Technologies website, http://www.lucent.com.
  • Lucent Technologies, IP Navigator MPLS Data Sheet.
  • InteropNet iLabs, http://www.interop.com.