The Acreo Test Bed, a Swedish national test bed has been build to perform test of GMPLS equipment and services under conditions that is as close to production hardware and software as possible. The test bed is a joint initiative between the Swedish research community, Swedish industry and international partners. The test bed is designed to stress both the GMPLS control plane and demonstrate on possible service deployment. The early stages of the test bed were presented at the conference 2003, some new development has taken place, e.g. involvement in pan-European projects.

The test bed consists three major parts;

• Pilot customers (friendly users) that will have a sponsored access to the tested services, but also access and commercial services.
• Long distance high speed links
• Interconnected broadband islands

The presentation will give and overview on how the test bed is designed, the experiences gained and the results achieved. It will give first hand information on performed test and results from these tests, as well as issues and plans.