MEF E-line, E-LAN & E-tree services vs MPLS

Question

Dears
Would like your assistance regarding below plz
I was wondering how MEF  E-line, E-LAN & E-tree services are configured at Cisco ??
What come to my mind is that first we need to have MPLS network then implement these services as below
E-line  ---->> EoMPLS  (AToM)
E-LAN ---->> VPLS
E-Tree ---->> Point-to-Mulipoint Traffic Engineering
So am I correct, or I can configure these services without having MPLS network ???
Many Thanks
Sherif Ismail

Answer 1

Yes you have to provision the vlan from on point to the other. On each node's interfaces you have to configure an ethernet flow point (ie vlan manipulation). For example on a service instance at 7600 you can configure to match one or two vlans and pop one or two vlans.
For multipoint services on 7600 you have to configure all the service instaces which should be communicate under the same bridge domain. It depends on what service you want to deploy, there is not a general configuration guideline for this. For example if you want to have 3 service instances on different interfaces talking together the configuration is :
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1
service instance 100 ethernet
  encapsulation dot1q 100
   rewrite ingress tag pop 1 symmetric
   bridge-domain 10
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/2
service instance 101 ethernet
  encapsulation dot1q 101
   rewrite ingress tag pop 1 symmetric
   bridge-domain 10
interface GigabitEthernet10/3
service instance 102 ethernet
  encapsulation dot1q 102
   rewrite ingress tag pop 1 symmetric
   bridge-domain 10
The ethernet services configuration on ES cards is very flexible, you can do vlan translation,1 --> 2 mappings, 2 --> 1 mappings. You can see the details on ES configuration guide http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/7600/install_config/ES20_config_guide/baldcfg.html
Best regards,
Michael