Adrian Farrel, of Old Dog Consulting, provided a tutorial covering various aspects of a Path Computation Element (PCE) at the MPLS 2008 conference in Washington, USA.

The presentation covers:

- Historic Drivers

- Generic Requirements

- Architectural Overview

- Discovering PCEs

- PCEP - The Basics of the PCE Protocol

- Usage Scenarios

- Core Protocol Extensions

- Advanced Uses and The Future

The presentation is available from the Old Dog Consulting website.