1st International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

Research Article

InterVLAN VPNs over a high performance optical testbed

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.22,
        author={Tarek  Saad and Basel  Alawieh and Hussein T.  Mouftah},
        title={InterVLAN VPNs over a high performance optical testbed},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2005},
        month={3},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.22}
    }
    
  • Tarek Saad
    Basel Alawieh
    Hussein T. Mouftah
    Year: 2005
    InterVLAN VPNs over a high performance optical testbed
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.22
Tarek Saad1,*, Basel Alawieh1,*, Hussein T. Mouftah1,*
  • 1: Optical Networks Research Lab, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
*Contact email: tsaad@site.uottawa.ca, balawieh@site.uottawa.ca, mouftah@site.uottawa.ca

Abstract

In this paper, we present the Optical Networks Research Laboratory (ONRL) Gigabit Ethernet fiberoptic network test-bed. Using this testbed, we consider two cases of provisioning secure and reliable connections for geographically disperse customer-based VLANs over a publicly shared network: 1) using Stacked VLANs (SVLAN) and 2) using L2-VPNs over IP/MPLS core network. We demonstrate the steps taken to install and configure an operational survivable virtual private network (VPN) service built over the ONRL metro-testbed. Finally, we present results of experiments conducted to study the protection and restoration schemes implemented using the previously mentioned scenarios.