LabN Consulting, LLC

LabN consults with network equipment manufacturers, service providers and the US Government. LabN guides its customers’ technology and product strategies, research programs, hardware and software architectures, standards awareness and efforts, and helps translate these into deliverable products through contract development and joint software development. LabN has industry leading expertise in the areas of IP control plane, routing, signaling, L2 and L3VPN overlay control, MPLS and GMPLS. We provide full, and partial, life-cycle development related services for network equipment vendor and enterprise-customized control-plane solutions. LabN plays an active role in the IETF and IEEE 802.1 Standards Development Organizations. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes. The IEEE 802.1 develops standards and recommendations for ethernet technologies. LabN helped pioneer the RSVP-TE and GMPLS control plane technologies, both in implementation and as Standards. Current standards activities include chairing the IETF LSR, MANET, NetMod, DetNet, and TEAS Working Groups, and being actively engaged in YANG, Deterministic Networks, DLEP, IS-IS, TFS, GMPLS, MPLS-TP, OTN, WSON control plane standardization. We continue to provide standardization related services to meet our customer’s needs.