Application of Ethernet Pseudowires to MPLS Transport Networks

A requirement has been identified by the operator community for the transparent carriage of the MPLS(-TP) network of one party over the MPLS(-TP) network of another party. This document describes a method of satisfying this need using the existing PWE3 Ethernet pseudowire standard RFC4448.

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