Network Working Group Z. Lin
Request for Comments: 3474 New York City Transit
Category: Informational D. Pendarakis
Tellium
March 2003
Documentation of IANA assignments for
Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS)
Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE)
Usage and Extensions for
Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON)
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS) suite of
protocol specifications has been defined to provide support for
different technologies as well as different applications. These
include support for requesting TDM connections based on Synchronous
Optical NETwork/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) as well as
Optical Transport Networks (OTNs).
This document concentrates on the signaling aspects of the GMPLS
suite of protocols, specifically GMPLS signaling using Resource
Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE). It proposes
additional extensions to these signaling protocols to support the
capabilities of an ASON network.
This document proposes appropriate extensions towards the resolution
of additional requirements identified and communicated by the ITU-T
Study Group 15 in support of ITU's ASON standardization effort.
Lin & Pendarakis Informational