By Bruce S. Davie, Adrian Farrel

Brief DESCRIPTION:

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a knowledge aircraft and keep watch over know-how that's utilized in packet (that is web Protocol) networks. Now over ten years previous, it has taken root firmly as a primary software in lots of merchant networks. The final ten years have obvious a substantial consolidation of MPLS concepts and protocols. This has led to the forsaking of a few of the unique gains of MPLS, and the advance of alternative new positive aspects. MPLS has moved from a potential answer, to a grown-up expertise. Now that MPLS has reached this point of adulthood, those new instruments and lines let extra refined companies to the clients of the community. those instruments and lines are mentioned inside of quite a few contexts all through a number of networking-related books released through MK and this provides us with a distinct publishing chance.

The proposed booklet is a best-of-the-best choice of current content material from a number of books MK has released in recent times on MPLS expertise (multi-label protocol switching). person chapters on MPLS know-how are derived from a handful of MK books and are mixed in a single new quantity in a manner that is sensible as a reference paintings for these attracted to new and constructing elements of this know-how, i.e., community operators and architects who have to be certain which features in their networks would get advantages from MPLS know-how and purposes. It additionally serves as a definitive reference for engineers enforcing MPLS-based products.

This e-book represents a short and effective method to convey beneficial content material jointly from top specialists within the box whereas making a one-stop-shopping chance for purchasers to obtain the data they might differently have to around up from separate resources. appropriate and present content material might be amassed from the subsequent titles: Evans, Deploying IP and MPLS QoS (2006); Farrel, GMPLS (2005); Ash, site visitors Engineering (2006); Vasseur, community restoration (2005); Farrel, the web and Its Protocols (2004); Nadeau, MPLS administration (2003); and Davie, MPLS know-how and purposes (2000). those chapters can be up to date the place precious and new chapters may be further firstly and the tip of the ebook to deliver the content material into concentration and talk about subsequent iteration advancements.

* assurance of significant functions of MPLS reminiscent of site visitors engineering, VPNs, IP integration, GMPLS, and QoS written through prime specialists within the box contributes on your functional wisdom of this key expertise
* exhibits you the way to enforce numerous MPLS purposes that might bring about saving your company time and money
* exhibits you ways you could assessment MPLS purposes and methods relating to each other so that you can enhance an optimal community design