MPLS-Enabled Applications (eBook)

With a foreword by Yakov Rekhter

"Here at last is a single, all encompassing resource where the
myriad applications sharpen into a comprehensible text that first
explains the whys and whats of each application before going on to
the technical detail of the hows."

--Kireeti Kompella, CTO Junos, Juniper Networks

The authoritative guide to MPLS, now in its Third edition,
fully updated with brand new material!

MPLS is now considered the networking technology for carrying
all types of network traffic, including voice telephony, real-time
video, and data traffic. In MPLS-Enabled Applications, Third
Edition, the authors methodically show how MPLS holds the key
to network convergence by allowing operators to offer more services
over a single physical infrastructure. The Third Edition contains
more than 170 illustrations, new chapters, and more coverage,
guiding the reader from the basics of the technology, though all
its major VPN applications.

MPLS Enabled-Applications contains up-to-date coverage
of:

* The current status and future potential of all major MPLS
applications, including L2VPN, L3VPN, pseudowires and VPLS.

* A new chapter with up to date coverage of the MPLS transport
profile, MPLS-TP.

* MPLS in access networks and Seamless MPLS, the new architecture
for extending MPLS into the access, discussed in depth for both the
unicast and the multicast case.

* Extensive coverage of multicast support in L3VPNs (mVPNs),
explaining and comparing both the PIM/GRE and the next generation
BGP/MPLS solutions, and including a new chapter on advanced topics
in next generation multicast VPNs.

* A new chapter on advanced protection techniques, including
detailed discussion of 50 ms end-to-end service restoration.

* Comprehensive coverage of the base technology, as well as the
latest IETF drafts, including topics such as pseudowire redundancy,
VPLS multihoming, IRB and P2MP pseudowires.

MPLS-Enabled Applications will provide those involved in
the design and deployment of MPLS systems, as well as those
researching the area of MPLS networks, with a thoroughly modern
view of how MPLS is transforming the networking world.

"Essential new material for those trying to understand the next
steps in MPLS."

--Adrian Farrel, IETF Routing Area Director

"MPLS-Enabled Applications takes a unique and creative
approach in explaining MPLS concepts and how they are applied in
practice to meet the needs of Enterprise and Service Provider
networks. I consistently recommend this book to colleagues in the
engineering, education and business community."

--Dave Cooper, Chief IP Technologist, Global Crossing Ltd