This two-day workshop provides attendees with a working knowledge of how to design and deploy a GMPLS-based dynamic circuit services network. The workshop will provide an overview of GMPLS architecture, RSVP and OSPF protocols, control plane design concepts, and specifics of dynamic circuit services network engineering as relates to campus, regional, and national network facilities in the R&E community.
The attendees will design and implement a real layer 2 (Ethernet) Dynamic Circuit Services Testbed using the open source DRAGON GMPLS Software Suite. At the workshop, participants will have necessary network hardware and software to construct a working network that allows end systems to allocate dedicated VLAN network resources across multiple administrative domains.
The first day will focus on concepts and basic control plane design and implementation topics. The second day will address inter-domain dynamic service provisioning with a case study of the Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Services integration and international peering issues.
In this workshop, attendees design and build a multi-domain GMPLS-controlled network consisting of four domains, each with a number of network elements, end systems, and servers. The material is not difficult, but it does reflect routing and provisioning technologies that are not widely understood by the network engineering community and are still undergoing substantial evolution even as we begin deploying them. Several prerequisite skills are recommended to allow us to effectively work through as much material as possible in the 2-day workshop.
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Classroom space is limited. Early registration encouraged.
