MPLS and Label Switching Networks

• 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.

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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Overviews the basics of label switching and the major features of multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). The authors explains the label distribution protocols (LDPs), integrating MPLS with ATM and frame relay networks, traffic engineering, and Diffserv. The second edition adds chapters on the open shortest path first (OSPF) protocol, optical networks, and virtual private networks. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Uyless Black is a widely known and respected consultant and lecturer on computer networks and data communications. He is author of all the books in his Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Communications Technologies, including Internet Security Protocols: Protecting IP Traffic, Internet Architecture: Protocols and Applications, Voice Over IP, and Advanced Internet Technologies. He resides in Front Royal, VA.