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In regards to Agilent's recently announced GMPLS RSVP Conformance what are the topology types that you support? Also if a vendor doesn't implement all the aspects of GMPLS drafts like the optical objects, will they be able to use the conformance tester?

The GMPLS RSVP Conformance Test suite will able to test devices that behave as Ingress, Egress or Interior GMPLS nodes. Also if you have Ingress and Egress devices the conformance tester will be able to simulate up to three interior GMPLS nodes.

We expect at least all the mandatory components of the drafts to be implemented before the use of the conformance tester. Most of the test cases only exercise the mandatory objects and procedures, however there are few test cases that a vendor will not be able to use if they have not implemented the optional objects. Also for example if a vendor has not implemented the Graceful deletion, the test will wait a while and execute a Forced deletion procedure. The conformance tester also has a flexible configuration environment that allows the user to enable/disable RSVP Refresh Reduction and LMP components of a test case.