Abstract:

The security isolation of BGP/MPLS VPNs can provide is well known. In this talk we look instead at the PE capabilties and implementations desired to protect PE resources, keeping user, control and management planes stable and robust. Many of these principles are well known from existing mature frame relay and ATM networks, but have not been as common in the early implementations of PE platforms.

Chris Chase received his PhD in Information and System Sciences from Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Prior to joining AT&Y Labs he was at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab doing systems modeling and analysis. At AT&T Labs he has been an architect for the frame relay and ATM service networks. He was chief architect of AT&T's leading MPLS VPN service, IP Enabled Frame Relay/ATM. Now he is a technology consultant in AT&T Research emphasizing MPLS and WAN networking.