Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation (CCIE Professional Development) An in-depth guide to understanding advanced MPLS implementation, including packet-based VPNs, ATM-based VPNs, traffic engineering, and quality of serviceAdvanced MPLS Design and Implementation enables you to:Understand MPLS through a detailed analysis of MPLS architecture and operatio

Title	:	Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation (CCIE Professional Development)
Author	:	Vivek Alwayn
Rating	:	4.68 (755 Votes)
Asin	:	158705020X
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	496 Pages
Publish Date	:	2001-09-25
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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 serviceAdvanced 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 provid

Editorial : Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) works great for getting Internet Protocol (IP) traffic to move reliably over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) links, particularly when there's a strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirement or a probable need to scale up. Vivek Alwayn, an experienced CCIE who helps service providers implement MPLS for a living, shares his considerable knowledge of MPLS in Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation. After a brief introduction to MPLS--it should be more of a refresher, really, for people who already know what the technology is about--Alwayn brings out scores of details that define how MPLS works, and how it can be made to work better. His best technique is to present a scenario, declare some design goals for it, and proceed to explain how to achieve those goals. Reading these case studies is really enjoyable from an engineering perspective (even if yours is not a Cisco shop), and they feature enough step-by-step instructions for the IOS command li

In addition, the capability of extending the control plane to the optical layer using the Unified Control Plane (UCP) is discussed. The most interesting section to me was the one on Internet access over MPLS VPNs.

ATM-based MPLS VPNs are discussed in chapter 6, with the author emphasizing the capability of MPLS of eliminating complexity in IP transport across ATM networks by mapping IP addressing and routing information directly into ATM switching tables. These include Dense Division Wavelength Multiplexing (DWDM), which is a process of multiplexing signals of different wavelengths onto a single fiber, and Multiprotocol Lamda Switching, which is the optical analogue of MPLS. Purchased for a collector friend. i devoured bruce buschel's "Walking Broad" in two sittings.

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