Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) is an emerging technology which helps in sustaining carrier profitability by reducing the operator expenses while supporting a variety of network topologies.
Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) is an extension of the existing MPLS that supports TDM, wavelength and spatial switching. GMPLS extends MPLS to provide the control plane (signaling and routing) for devices that switch in any of these domains: packet, time, wavelength, and fiber. This common control plane promises to simplify network operation and management by automating end-to-end provisioning of connections, managing network resources, and providing the level of QoS that is expected in the new, sophisticated applications. This coursed begins by an introduction of MPLS and defining GMPLSs place in a transport network, leveraging your knowledge of MPLS to give you an understanding of this radically new control plane technology. The course covers GMPLS architecture and Switching Domains, GMPLS Traffic Types, GMPLS Forwarding Scheme, GMPLS Devices, GMPLS Protocols, GMPLS Signaling Protocols and Link Management. An overview of GMPLS protocols follows an in-depth examinations of the architectures underpinning GMPLS in real-world network environments and current and emerging GMPLS applications.
Objectives
Unerstand GMPLS protocols for signaling, routing, link and resource management, and traffic engineering.
Develop deep into the world of GMPLS applications, including traffic engineering, path computation, L1 VPNs, point-to-multipoint connectivity, service management, and resource protection.
Explore three GMPLS control plane architectures: peer, overlay, and hybrid, and explains the GMPLS UNI and NNIs.
Explain how provisioning challenges can be met in multi-region networks and details the provisioning systems and tools relied on by the GMPLS control plane, along with the standard MIB modules used to manage a GMPLS system.
Course Outline
Introduction to GMPLS
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Background of MPLS
Traffic Engineering (TE)
MPLS Signaling: RSVP-TE / CR-LDP
MPLS with DiffServ
MPLS OAM
MPLS's Momentum in Convergence and Service Creation
Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching
Transport Networks
From MPLS To GMPLS
GMPLS Framework
GMPLS Switching Domains
GMPLS Traffic Types
GMPLS Forwarding Scheme
GMPLS Devices
GMPLS Protocols
Routing Protocols
OSPF-TE
IS-IS-TE
GMPLS Signaling Protocols
RSVP-TE
CR-LDP
GMPLS Link Management
LMP
GMPLS Architecture and Building Blocks
Common Control Plane
Seperartion between data plane and common control plane
This course is suitable for software architects, designers and programmers, hardware developers, system testers, and network operators--and also for managers and other decision-makers in the GMPLS domain.
