Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation
- By Vivek Alwayn.
- Published by Cisco Press.
- Series: Networking Technology.
- Published: Sep 25, 2001
- Copyright 2002
- Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 496
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 1-58705-020-X
- ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-020-6
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An in-depth guide to understanding advanced MPLS implementation, including packet-based VPNs, ATM-based VPNs, traffic engineering, and quality of service
Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation enables you to:
- Understand MPLS through a detailed analysis of MPLS architecture and operation
- Design and implement packet-based MPLS Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) using label switching routers (LSRs)
- Design and implement ATM-based MPLS VPNs using WAN-switched ATM LSRs
- Implement MPLS traffic engineering on your core network and optimize traffic flows dynamically
- Implement MPLS QoS and provide hard service guarantees with multiple classes of service
- Acquire practical design and implementation knowledge of real-world MPLS VPNs, TE, and QoS through case studies and configuration examples
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a highly scalable, high-performance forwarding technology that has multiple applications in the service provider and enterprise environment. This book is intended for internetwork engineers and administrators who are responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting service provider or enterprise MPLS backbone networks. It contains a broad range of technical details on MPLS and its associated protocols, packet-based MPLS, ATM-based MPLS, MPLS traffic engineering, MPLS QoS, MPLS design, and advanced MPLS architectures.
This book contains MPLS theory, design, configuration, and various case studies. Use this book as a reference and guide for designing, implementing, and supporting an MPLS network. Even if you're not using Cisco(r) equipment, this book can increase your awareness and understanding of MPLS technology as well as provide you with detailed design concepts and rules for building scalable MPLS networks.
Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation is your guide to understanding, designing, and implementing MPLS VPNs, WAN-switched MPLS VPNs, MPLS traffic engineering, and MPLS QoS.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Splendid presentation, By John Willis (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation (CCIE Professional Development) (Hardcover)
This is a very nice book. It is well written and organized very well in a structured manner. I also noticed, that one could read the chapter on Traffic Engineering without reading the previous chapters on MPLS VPNs and still get a grasp of the topic under discuion. In this sense, the book is very modular.I would recommend this book to anyone trying to catch up on MPLS from the scratch. The title indicates that the book is advanced in nature which could frighten the first-time MPLS implementer, but I assure you, that the initial chapters are a warm-up on WAN technology and could serve as a refresher for TDM, Frame Relay and ATM technology. The author does a wonderful job in terms of the ramp up to advanced topics and has presented the chapter on ATM MPLS very well with screen shots from the BPX product, which I feel are very useful. Frame-mode MPLS is covered as well. The MPLS Traffic Engineeing examples and case study was very well presented as well. However, the chapter on... Read more
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This review is from: Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation (CCIE Professional Development) (Hardcover)
For those familiar with the basic rudiments of MPLS this book gives an excellent overview of the more advanced aspects of the subject. It is strictly a monograph, as there are no exercises in the book, but it could be used as a classroom textbook if it were supplemented with problem sets. The book is aimed at network engineers and managers, but those interested in the performance modeling of MPLS networks will find the book very useful.The author begins the book with an elementary overview of MPLS, and why it was invented, namely to allow routers and ATM switches to do forwarding based on the contents of a label, and not route lookup. In the next chapter, the role of MPLS in cloud technologies like TDM, Frame Relay, and ATM is discussed. The reader is expected to know about these technologies in detail, for only short reviews of each is given. The concept of a forward equivalence class (FEC) is introduced, and conventional layer 3 routing versus MPLS is... Read more
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A very good reference guide for MPLS, By Chris Beckett (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation (CCIE Professional Development) (Hardcover)
It took me 3 solid days to read this book, since we have a major MPLS project coming up. It is very well written and the examples take you from the basics to the advanced. The more advanced content, I noticed was in the ATM and Traffic Engineering sections.This is the only MPLS book which covers ATM MPLS, none of the other books, I have purchased, including the other Cisco Press book covers ATM MPLS or Traffic Engineering. There are a few typos, which one can live with, However, all in all, it is an excellent MPLS reference and tutorial. I would give it 5 stars. Chris Beckett |
Index
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to MPLS.
2. WAN Technologies and MPLS.
3. MPLS Architecture.
4. Virtual Private Networks.
5. Packet-Based MPLS VPNs.
6. ATM-Based MPLS VPNs.
7. MPLS Traffic Engineering.
8. MPLS Quality of Service.
9. MPLS Design and Migration.
10. Advanced MPLS Architectures.
Appendix A: MPLS Command Reference.
Appendix B: MPLS Equipment Design Specifications.
Appendix C: MPLS Glossary.
Appendix D: References.
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