Abstract

This panel focuses on network applications for ASON/GMPLS from both vendor and carrier perspectives. Industry wide work is advancing standards and interoperability agreements in support of intelligent optical networks. Significant advances in standardization include: † ITU-T has completed recommendations on the Automatically Switched Optical Networks (ASON) architecture and requirements for signaling, routing, and neighbor discovery. † IETF has completed RFCs for GMPLS signaling covering SONET/SDH, Optical Transport Networks (OTN), and is working on routing protocols extensions. † Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has completed work on Interoperability Agreements (IAs) for UNI and E-NNI signaling, it has staged several world-wide interoperability events, and is working on updates to IAs. † TMF is completing work on extending the Multi-Technology Network Management (MTNM) interface for management of ASON networks. Abstract only.

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