Service Providers Lean Toward Mpls-tp Over Pbb-te In New Packet Transport Survey

摘要

An industry controversy triggered analyst firm Infonetics Research to conduct a survey to see whether service providers plan to use PBB-TE or MPLS-TP, both, or alternative transport protocols as they build more packet-oriented networks. The resulting report, MPLS-TP and PBB-TE Go Toe-to-Toe: Service Provider Survey, was released by Infonetics, with interesting conclusions. PBB-TE shows it has some market challenges on two counts when compared to MPLS-TP. First, 32 percent of the service providers we interviewed will not consider, or have considered and rejected, deployment of PBB-TE, while only 5 percent express similar negatives for MPLS-TP. Second, even though MPLS-TP is not yet defined, almost 80 percent of the service providers said they are considering MPLS-TP, while 53 percent will consider PBB-TE.