Towards Distributed (Common) Control Plane
IP Distributed Control Channels
IP Control Channels implemented using IF/IB - IF/OB or OF/OB (signalling transport mechanisms) enabling the transport of “control IP packets” exchanged throughout IP distributed control plane
Network controllers (or GMPLS controllers) can STILL be either co-located or non-co-located within the network device (SDH XC, OADM, OXC, PXC, etc.)
Evolution of the NMS includes SNMPv2/3, COPS, LDAP and other Traffic Engineering/ Optimization Tools and QoS Policing SLS/SLA Mgt