Hi, I'm a student currently researching MPLS/TE technologies. With all the proposed methods and functionalities, I was wondering if anyone has some useful information/pointers to answers to the following questions: * How widely is traffic engineering over MPLS deployed in today's networks? * What applications of MPLS are in use today (TE, protection, BGP nexthop resolution, VPNs, etc)? * How widely used are TE offline planning tools? * How do different vendors affect different deployments? That is, are the common functionalities mostly in use, or are there different proprietary methods used in different networks/SPs? Thanks a lot for any useful information, Shawn. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.