Answers to your Questions

GMPLS standards drafts seem stable enough for vendors to implement some of them:
   • What GMPLS features and functions do you include in your optical/MPLS router tester?
   • Have you added LMP test capability?

Our Optical Control Plane Analysis (E5170A) software is able to do GMPLS decodes, including the following:

• draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-signaling.xx
• draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-rsvp-te.xx
• draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-cr-ldp.xx
• draft-kompella.ospf.gmpls.extension.xx

We are about to release the Optical UNI RSVP Conformance Test Suite (E5171A) (ver4.1) which tests the conformance to the oif2001.125.5 specification and since this specification refers to LMP we will be including some LMP test cases as well. The LMP support will include the ability to test the control channel management.

We have also started work on GMPLS conformance testing, and these test suites will include LMP test cases as well. We expect to have first beta available in Sept '01 and final release is Dec '01 for conformance test suites. We also intend to provide support for GMPLS routing protocols by allowing topology injection during protocol interworking tests.

In the first half of next year we also intend to release application tools to test mesh restoration performance etc.

If you would like more specific information relating to any portion of the above answer please email: IPTest@Agilent.com

We hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Optical Product Marketing Manager,
Agilent Technologies