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VCAT/LCAS and GMPLS. Greg Bernstein (Grotto) Diego Caviglia (Ericsson/Marconi) Richard Rabbat (Fujitsu) Huub van Helvoort (Huawei) Lyndon Ong (Ciena) Wataru Imajuku (NTT) Julien Meuric (France Telecom) IETF 66: Montréal. Table of Contents. Background reading
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VCAT/LCAS and GMPLS Greg Bernstein (Grotto) Diego Caviglia (Ericsson/Marconi) Richard Rabbat (Fujitsu) Huub van Helvoort (Huawei) Lyndon Ong (Ciena) Wataru Imajuku (NTT) Julien Meuric (France Telecom) IETF 66: Montréal
Table of Contents • Background reading draft-bernstein-ccamp-gmpls-vcat-lcas-03.txt • Changes from -02 • Extending GMPLS to support diversely routed LSPs • Association object • Next steps
Background reading • A number of vendors, carriers have initiated this work • The draft includes documentation of the function performed by VCAT and LCAS • The advances in data transport now allow good support for diversely routed SONET paths • LCAS also allows hitless resizing of the VCAT group (zero dropped traffic)
Changes from -02 • Added one more author (Huub) • Dropped section about advertising VCAT and LCAS capability. • This change is due to the amount of information that would need to be advertised. • VCAT capability at the interface comprises a lot of information, which make advertising not very scalable. For example, a node could perform an adaptation using two interfaces lying on different line cards but that's not necessarily always the case. • This update to the draft expects the use of an outside entity in selecting the right destinations.
Association object • Used to associate the diversely routed LSPs Association Type: 16 bits Value Type ----- ---- 3 VCAT group Association ID: 16-bit value, so we can have up to 2^16 associations, meaning up to 2^16 diversely routed VCAT groups and any number of co-routed LSPs. • May use the same PathErr message with "Traffic Control Error/ Service unsupported" indication
Next Steps • Authors feel that the draft is stable and is now ready to be CCAMP WG draft