A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Architecture of MPLS/IP Network with Hardened Pipes Authors : JiangTao Hao River Huang Loa Andersson Mach Chen Filename : draft-hao-mpls-ip-hard-pipe-00.txt Pages : 14 Date : 2014-07-01 Abstract: This document is intended to become an Informational RFC on the independent stream. The document does not specify any new protocol or procedures. It does explain how MPLS standards been implemented, deployed and operated to meet the requirements from operators that offer traditional Virtual Leased Line services. This document introduces the concept of "Hard Pipes", a Hard Pipe is an MPLS Label Switched Path (LSP) or a Pseudowire (PW) with a bandwidth that is guaranteed and can neither be exceeded nor infringed upon. This document describes an MPLS/IP network that has an infrastructure that can be separated into two or more strata. For the implementation described in this document the infrastructure has been separated into two strata. One for the 'Hard Pipes', called the 'Hard Pipe Stratum". And one for the normal IP/MPLS traffic - called the 'Normal IP/MPLS stratum'. The Hard Pipe stratum does not use statistical multiplexing, for the LSPs and PWs setup within this stratum the bandwidth are guaranteed end to end. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hao-mpls-ip-hard-pipe/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hao-mpls-ip-hard-pipe-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt