Table of Contents

 1 Scope            
 2 References   
 3 Definitions   
 4 Abbreviations and acronyms  
 5 Conventions
 6 Functional architecture of MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS‑TP) networks      
        6.1 MPLS-TP network layered structure            
        6.2 MPLS-TP layer network 
        6.3 MPLS-TP layer network partitioning           
        6.4 MPLS‑TP network topology          
        6.5 MPLS-TP label behaviour              
 7 Server/client associations         
        7.1 MT/client adaptation      
        7.2 MT/MT adaptation         
        7.3 Server/MT adaptation    
8 MPLS-TP OAM architecture    
        8.1 General              
        8.2 MPLS‑TP connection and trail supervision
        8.3 MPLS‑TP maintenance entity group monitoring       
        8.4 MPLS‑TP MIP  
        8.5 Bandwidth considerations with MPLS-TP OAM       
 9 MPLS-TP survivability techniques         
10 MPLS‑TP Diff-Serv architecture            
       10.1 Short-pipe model            
       10.2 Uniform model               
11 MPLS‑TP TTL behaviour       
12 Security aspects        
Annex A – Default configuration options for MPLS-TP in a transport network application    
Appendix I – An example of MPLS‑TP layer structure    
Bibliography