as mentioned in the additional ccamp webpage, this draft plugs a hole however
interest shown on this list is certainly low
but so at the end of the day one may ask if this is the case
1) how implementations that have been reported in
<http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Implementations/MPLS-SIGNALING-Implementation.txt>
9 supports waveband labels so do we have to make the assumption that all of them
support only inverse multiplexing mechanism and/or wavelength concatenation ?
2) then what about Fiber SC ?
this leaves the impression that the FSC value has been sometimes used when
switching the whole content of the container (ie the fiber) while following a
strict interpretation it is meant to only address spatial switching per GMPLS ARCH:
"5. Fiber-Switch Capable (FSC) interfaces:
Interfaces that switch data based on a position of the data in the
(real world) physical spaces. An example of such an interface is
that of a PXC or OXC that can operate at the level of a single or
multiple fibers."
thanks,
- dimitri.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-douville-ccamp-gmpls-waveband-extensions-05.txt
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:33:35 -0400
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Extensions to Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching
in support of Waveband Switching
Author(s) : R. Douville, et al.
Filename : draft-douville-ccamp-gmpls-waveband-extensions-05.txt
Pages : 11
Date : 2004-7-22
Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) extends the MPLS
control plane to encompass layer 2, time-division, wavelength and
spatial switching. Along with the current development on IP over
optical switching, considerable advances in optical transport
systems based on the multiple optical switching granularities have
been developed.
Currently, GMPLS considers two layers of optical granularity using
wavelengths and fibers. By introducing an extended definition of
waveband switching, this document specifies the corresponding GMPLS
extensions, to further integrate optical multi-granularity and
benefit from the features of the corresponding switching layers.
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