MPLS: Implementing the Technology - Softcover

Gray, Eric W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201657627 ISBN 13: 9780201657623

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a breakthrough that can simplify routing and enhance network performance in a wide variety of applications, notably VPNs, traffic engineering, and Quality of Service applications. Cisco Systems, IBM, and Toshiba are a few of the companies currently committed to support MPLS as a switching standard. This is the first complete, real-world guide to implementing MPLS. Written by a leader of the MPLS Forum standards community, it will be an invaluable resource for everyone charged with deploying or evaluating the technology. Discover how MPLS simplifies routing, helping network managers avoid congestion hot spots and build networks with lower latency and greater scalability. Gray reviews MPLS system architecture and shows how MPLS can be used in diverse network environments, including ATM, Frame Relay, SONFT, and Ethernet. Learn how to leverage MPLS in delivering real-world applications. The accompanying CD-ROM contains an HTML version of the book, animations to augment the diagrams in the book, as well as internet drafts and RFCs to illustrated the ideas in the text.

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From the Back Cover

MPLS: Implementing the Technology is a how-to handbook for network engineers and managers charged with implementing this exciting new switching technology to build high-speed, scalable network infrastructures.

In this detailed deployment guide, networking authority Eric W. Gray explains the history of the Multi-Protocol Label Switching standard and its relationship to existing switching protocols. This book details how MPLS provides solutions to traffic engineering routing problems and how it can also provide support solutions for virtual private networks (VPNs). Providing detailed information on the MPLS framework and its implementation, Gray’s guidebook is the ideal self-contained reference for MPLS technology.

MPLS: Implementing the Technology provides network engineers, architects, and managers with all of the material necessary to implement and deploy the technology, including:

• An in-depth survey of the ideas embodied in the technology, including label switching, label swapping and comparisons to alternate routing technologies
• An explanation of the MPLS system architecture and applicability of specific MPLS encapsulation and signaling approaches
• A comparison of MPLS and alternative approaches to solving common network problems and how MPLS is supported by technologies, including ATM, Frame Relay, Packet-on-Sonet (POS), and Ethernet
• Descriptions of how services such as QoS, traffic engineering, and virtual private networks are enhanced using MPLS
• How MPLS interacts with other technologies, including routing protocols, link-layer, and network layer technologies
• Specific deployment considerations, including tunneling, encapsulation, label distribution and loop mitigation, detection and prevention

The accompanying CD-ROM contains the entire text of the book with hypertext links, diagrams, and animations that illustrate the ideas presented in the book.

Filled with detailed information and an extensive glossary (complete with acronym definitions), MPLS: Implementing the Technology provides turnkey solutions for moving information rapidly across today’s congested networks.

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About the Author

Eric W. Gray is the senior architect engineer responsible for MPLS technology at Zaffire, Inc. Prior to joining Zaffire, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Inc. where he was part of Lucent’s MPLS and routing efforts.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0201657627
• ISBN 13: 9780201657623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224