Good luck Fujitsu in positioning PBB-TE. The Nortel marketing / positioning of PBB-TE was so bad that they can only do it better. At least they try to avoid the name "PBB-TE" here.
stuartb: Fujitsu Ethernet Tag Switching is VLAN tag swapping (treating the S-tag as a label and swapping it at every hop). See the Fujitsu white paper:
re: Fujitsu Pokes at MPLS-TPYou should come to APAC to see MPLS-TP momentum. Hundreds of thousands of MPLS-TP boxes are being deployed in countries such as Korea, China, Japan, India, etc. And it is not anymore Europe or US who sets the technology trend, but APAC
re: Fujitsu Pokes at MPLS-TPAsk yourself the question which packet transport network has not a top ethernet services layer in which Ethernet Connections (EC) support the MEF EVCs?
MPLS-TP, PBB-TE, SDH, PBB B-VLAN, OTN are all supporting this EC layer. ECs are identified by VID, SID, PW label or other server layer specific identifiers. All thise identifiers/labels are switched in every node where these ECs are switched or bridged.
The difference is not the top layer, it is the lower layers... and those lower layers are domain bounded... Result is worldwide interoperability via the EC layer and MEF26 Ethernet E-NNIs.
A mid-2011 PBB-TE revival? Whoda thunkit?
But as pointed out, MPLS-TP has the momentum, just like VHS did in the battle against Betamax...
Good luck Fujitsu in positioning PBB-TE. The Nortel marketing / positioning of PBB-TE was so bad that they can only do it better. At least they try to avoid the name "PBB-TE" here.
MPLS-TP has the momentum? Maybe against PBB-TE, but my impression is that, overall, MPLS-TP has lost momentum in the industry. And rightfully so ...
stuartb: Fujitsu Ethernet Tag Switching is VLAN tag swapping (treating the S-tag as a label and swapping it at every hop). See the Fujitsu white paper:
http://www.fujitsu.com/downloa...
It was being pushed by NSN for a few years.
Simon.
And it is not anymore Europe or US who sets the technology trend, but APAC
MPLS-TP, PBB-TE, SDH, PBB B-VLAN, OTN are all supporting this EC layer. ECs are identified by VID, SID, PW label or other server layer specific identifiers. All thise identifiers/labels are switched in every node where these ECs are switched or bridged.
The difference is not the top layer, it is the lower layers... and those lower layers are domain bounded... Result is worldwide interoperability via the EC layer and MEF26 Ethernet E-NNIs.