The white paper summarizes all the results obtained during the hot-staging week and presented at the MPLS World Congress in Paris, sorted by test sessions.

The results from this year’s event are reassuring to MPLS vendors and to Service Providers relying on the technology.  A larger group of vendors than ever before demonstrated interoperability in all areas pertaining to services. Network services that depend on MPLS for success, for example Carrier Ethernet and IP-based VPN services, are now free to choose from an ever-expanding list of vendors providing MPLS support.  Another important achievement is the interoperability of a key backbone component, MPLS Fast Reroute, between a larger than before set of vendors.

MPLS is moving towards a ubiquitous role as a networking technology.  As such, more devices that traditionally did not play a role in MPLS topologies also begin to include MPLS stacks and signaling capabilities along with increased protocol support.  It is clear to us that the MPLS interoperability efforts are far from finished.