Abstract:

This presentation discusses issues and solutions relating to speed, scale and services at the network edge. The presentation shows how MPLS has assumed an important role as an adjunct to current technology in allowing service providers to evolve their networks to meet increasing throughput requirements in the face of reduced revenue.

Eric Gray is a Systems Architect at Celox Networks, Inc. He has worked in software, API and protocol development for 15 years in various capacities - including software engineer, manager and architect. In recent years, Eric has worked almost exclusively in routing and MPLS and has attended IETF meetings since 1994. He was a contributor to most of the RFCs accepted by the IETF community (including MPLS Architecture and Label Distribution Protocol - LDP - in particular) and a Co-Author on a few (LDP Applicability, CR-LDP, CR-LDP Applicability and LDP State Machines). He is also the author of the book "MPLS: Implementing the Technology" (published by Addison Wesley Longman in March, 2001).