MPLS-Enabled Applications: Emerging Developments and New...

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• Cover Type: Paperback with 526 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 2nd Edition June 3, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470986441
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470986448
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Product Description
“Here at last is a single, all-encompassing resource where the myriad applications sharpen into a comprehensible text.” Kireeti Kompella, Juniper Fellow, Juniper Networks.

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

Multiprotocol Label Switching (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, the Second 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 Second Edition contains more than 150 illustrations, new chapters, and more coverage, guiding the reader from the basics of the technology, including signaling protocols, traffic engineering and fast reroute, though all its major applications.

MPLS Enabled-Applications, Second Edition, contains comprehensive up-to-date coverage of:

• the current status and the future potential of all major MPLS applications, including L3VPNs (Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks), L2VPNs (Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks), pseudowires and VPLS .  (Virtual Private LAN Service).
• extensive discussion of multicast support over MPLS, including a new chapter dedicated to multicast in VPNs, explaining both the PIM/GRE (Protocol Independent Multicast  / Generic Routing Encapsulation) and the next generation BGP/MPLS solutions, new material on support of multicast in VPLS, a much-expanded chapter on MPLS multicast and a section perations and management (OAM) tools for point-to-multipoint LSPs.
• a new chapter on MPLS in access networks, as well as coverage of the use of MPLS in mobile and data communication networks. 
• interoperation of LDP(Label Distribution Protocol) and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) based VPLS.
• comprehensive  coverage of the base technology, as well as the latest IETF drafts

With a foreword by Yakov Rekhter

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"Here at last is a single all-encompassing resource where the myriad applications sharpen into a comprehensible text." - Kireeti Kompella

The authoritative guide to MPLS, in a fully updated Second Edition!

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is now considered the networking technology for carrying all types of network traffic, including voice telephony, real-time video, and data traffic. MPLS-Enabled Applications methodically show how MPLS holds the key to network convergence by allowing operators to offer more services over a single physical infrastructure. The Second Edition contains more than 150 illustrations, new chapters, and more coverage, guiding the reader from the basics of the technology, including signaling protocols, traffic engineering and fast reroute, through all its major applications.

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

"This book allows understanding what we can do today and what we will be able to do tomorrow with MPLS, as it covers not only stable and deployed technologies, but also new ones under development within the IETF." -- Jean-Louis Le Roux, Senior MPLS Architect, Orange 

"This should be the textbook for MPLS courses, both for training of experienced networking professionals and for universities." -- Loa Andersson, Acreo AB, IAB-Member and IETF MPLS Working Group Co-Chair 

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

• the current status and the future potential of all major MPLS applications, including L3VNs, L2VPNs, pseudowires and VPLS.
• extensive discussion of multicast support over MPLS, including a new chapter on multicast in VPNs showing both the PIM/GRE and the next-generation BGP/MPLS solutions new material on VPLS multicast and a section on OAM tools for P2MP LSPs.
• a new chapter on MPLS in access networks, as well as coverage of the use of MPLS in mobile and data communication networks.
• detailed discussion of how to interoperate LDP and BGP based VPLS.
• comprehensive coverage of the base technology, as well as the latest IETF drafts,including topics such as P2MP LSPs, Diffserv-aware and inter-domain TE, IPv6 VPNs and MPLS OAM tools.

Reader Reviews
This book is the most complete MPLS book written. All of the content contained in multiple Cisco-press volumes are in this book. It is concise and to the point. Although the authors are Juniper elite engineers, this book is about MPLS and not about Cisco or Juniper. If you don't have time to gain the same material by reading three 400 page books, this book is for you. The same material is covered. Just remember MSDOS.... When it had sixty commands Sybex books came out with a 600 page MSDOS book!! This is the direct opposite. It is concise and to the point. No Fluff, editorials, opinions, just the facts! The first edition is excellent. The second edition brings you right up to date with the latest in standards, and I think it is near a first where a book has attempted to keep up with the RFC drafts. Normally you need to read a book on the evolving technology, then refer to RFC's for the latest updates. (Some of us early adopters have to use the RFC's. However here is your chance to get the most up to date, complete MPLS material without reading the RFC's and drafts. It is all in here. As an example, Interdomain Multicast in MPLS has changed. Two new BGP Extended communities have been added to BGP4 to support it. It is based on the Rosen Draft [MVPN], but is significantly different enough that it is being called [NG-MVPN], or Next Generation Multicast VPN. Those looking to migrate their service provider multicast to SSM, eliminating RP's, and providing greater expandability via NG-Mcast it is in this book (and they cover how it is different than Rosen-Draft) in a very clear fashion. It is just a well written book, and owning a huge library of very many technology books, it is indeed rare that a "Well written" book comes along that just delivers material. This is my new MPLS bible, just as everyone has a copy of the "BGP bible" from Cisco Press, and TCP/IP by Jeff Doyle. We technologists voted these books the bibles by sales volume alone. I can not make a stronger recommendation. Excellent!