Subject: FW: I-D ACTION:draft-theimer-tcrtp-mpls-00.txt

From: Theimer Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:57:04 +0200

FYI. I am not sure if this draft is relevant to the PPP working group, as it does not change anything in PPP. However, it does involve carrying PPP over MPLS tunnels to facilitate header compression.

Regards,

Thomas Theimer
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> 	Title		: Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP in MPLS
> 	Author(s)	: T. Theimer
> 	Filename	: draft-theimer-tcrtp-mpls-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 10
> 	Date		: 09-Jun-00
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> This document describes a method to improve the bandwidth efficiency
> of voice transmission over an IP/MPLS network by combining RTP
> compression, PPP multiplexing and MPLS tunneling. This proposal does
> not require any additions or modifications to existing protocols, and
> therefore should be fully interoperable with existing implementations
> of RTP compression and PPP multiplexing. It only requires specific
> use of some attributes of MPLS signalling protocols to setup a pair
> of unidirectional MPLS tunnels providing a bidirectional link for
> compressed RTP over PPP.
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