Mpls & Label Switching Networks - Hardcover

Black, Uyless D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130358193 ISBN 13: 9780130358196

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

MPLS and Label-Switching Networks, Second Edition is the authoritative resource for planning, implementing, and succeeding with MPLS technologies. Renowned consultant Uyless Black illuminates the final, official MPLS standard through practical examples and detailed diagrams, offering detailed guidance on maximizing network reliability, utilization, and performance. Black covers MPLS in ATM, frame relay, IPv4, IPv6, and VPN environments; RSVP-TE and CR-LDP traffic engineering; QoS; and even the new GMPLS standard for optical networks.

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About the Author

UYLESS BLACK is a widely respected telecommunications consultant and lecturer with extensive operations and implementation experience in both public and private networks. His clients include Nortel Networks, British Telecom, and major carriers throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. His recent Prentice Hall PTR books include Optical Networks: Third Generation Transport Systems; Voice Over IP, Second Edition; IP Routing Protocols; and Networking 101. He is also the creator of Uyless Black's Networking 101 Training Course (PTG Interactive).

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The authoritative, practical introduction to the final MPLS standard!

• Fully updated to cover the final, official MPLS standard
• Presents detailed enterprise and service provider example scenarios
• Includes up-to-the-minute coverage of QoS and MPLS-based VPNs
• Introduces the new Generalized MPLS and RSVP-TE protocols

MPLS will be at the heart of tomorrow's flexible, manageable, and cost-effective networks. MPLS and Label Switching Networks, Second Edition is the authoritative resource you need to understand MPLS technologies-and implement them for competitive advantage. Renowned communications consultant Uyless Black illuminates the final MPLS standard through practical examples and detailed diagrams, offering start-to-finish guidance on using MPLS to maximize network reliability, utilization, and performance. Coverage includes:

• Integrating MPLS into ATM and Frame Relay networks-and both IPv4 and IPv6 environments
• Traffic engineering-including RSVP-TE and CR-LDP
• Building more resilient service provider and ISP backbones
• Configuring MPLS-based networks for rapid service restoration
• Deploying and securing MPLS-based VPNs
• GMPLS for optical networks: accelerating service deployment and improving operational efficiency

Whether you're in an enterprise or service provider environment, MPLS and Label Switching Networks, Second Edition gives you insight and clarity for planning, deploying, and succeeding with MPLS technologies—starting today.

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Preface

As the name of this book implies, the focus is on the switching of traffic though a network or networks. The term switching is also known in some parts of the industry as forwarding, relaying, and routing. Internet Drafts: Work in Progress

In many of my explanations of label switching operations, I have relied on the Internet Request for Comments (RFCs) and draft standards, published by the Internet Society, and I thank this organization for making the RFCs available to the public. The draft standards are "works in progress," and usually change as they wind their way to an RFC (if indeed they become an RFC). A work in progress cannot be considered final, but many vendors use them in creating products for the marketplace. Notwithstanding, they are subject to change.

For all the Internet standards and draft standards the following applies:

Copyright © The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.

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The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130358193
• ISBN 13: 9780130358196
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314