Throughput Measurement for MPLS-based Transport Networks

An important Operation, Administration and Maintenance requirement of the MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) is the ability to estimate/ measure the throughput (i.e. bandwidth) of an MPLS-TP connection which could be an MPLS-TP LSP, PW or Section. This document specifies the OAM packets and procedures for both one-way and two-way throughput estimation/measurement in MPLS-TP.