Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Architecture Overview

Date: Jan 1, 2001 By Jim Guichard, Ivan Pepelnjak. Sample Chapter is provided courtesy of Cisco Press.
This chapter concentrates on identifying restrictions and presents a new architecture, known as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), that provides solutions to some of these restrictions. The following chapters focus first on the details of the MPLS architecture in a pure router environment, and then in a mixed router/ATM switch environment.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Architecture Overview

This chapter concentrates on identifying restrictions and presents a new architecture, known as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), that provides solutions to some of these restrictions. The following chapters focus first on the details of the MPLS architecture in a pure router environment, and then in a mixed router/ATM switch environment.

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