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Service providers continue to look to developments in Optical Signaling, Routing and
Management (OSRM) technologies to provide increased network automation that will
allow them to offer new, diversified services while concurrently reducing operational
costs. OSRM enables the dynamic creation, maintenance and and tear down of
connections within and between optical networks.
Ongoing OSRM test events at the University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability
Laboratory (UNH-IOL) are bringing together service providers and telecom equipment
vendors in this emerging market to demonstrate and facilitate standards based
interoperability. As part of this effort, the UNH-IOL recently conducted a Generalized
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) test event. GMPLS is one of several OSRM
technologies that Service providers can utilize to automate the delivery and
management of bandwidth how and deliver to their customers.
The results of the independent GMPLS testing conducted at UNH-IOL are detailed in
this white paper, and suggest that significant progress continues to be made in the areas
of OSRM standards development and vendor implementation; this progress, in turn, will
enable service providers to sell optical services to customers with greater efficiency,
differentiation, and profitability.
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