MARBEN Link Resource Manager
The Link Resource manager as defined by ITU-T performs local TE-Links management: TE-Links include local data-links, bundles and Forwarding Adjacencies.Therefore the MARBEN Link Resource manager uses the MARBEN Traffic Engineering Development Kit (and its MARBEN LMP Development Kit extension) to advertise local TE-Links. Bundling is driven by the user-application, or by provisioned policies. Whenever connections are setup, modified, rerouted or torn down, the MARBEN Link Resource manager takes charge of:
- Downstream local TE-Link and data-link selection;
- TE-Link resource update in OSPF-TE or ISIS-TE advertisements;
- Transport plane resource allocation/de-allocation through an customizable interface. Such an interface is asynchronous.

State machine for TE link resource management