December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
920 pages
23h 28m
English
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Preface
About This Book
There are many Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) books available on the market. In particular, we have been very much influenced in the recent past by these two great books:
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MPLS-Enabled Applications: Emerging Developments and New Technologies, Third Edition by Ina Minei and Julian Lucek (Wiley, 2010).
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MPLS and VPN Architectures by Ivan Pepelnjak and Jim Guichard (Cisco Press, 2010).
What is the point in releasing another book about MPLS? In two words: interoperability and Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
Interoperability
Although this first edition is published in late 2015, the initial idea dates from mid-2012. This book was initially conceived to describe real MPLS interoperability.
Over the past decade, we have heard this sentence from many customers: “You vendors keep speaking about what you do better than your competitors, but you never tell us what you can do with them on a multivendor network.” Clearly, the answer, “We try to comply to the standards—ask the other vendors to do the same and it should be fine,” is not satisfactory enough for large feature sets. This book attempts to break that taboo by describing, for the first time in networking history, how a large portfolio of multivendor MPLS services can be deployed on real networks, down to the configuration level. We’ll look at what interoperates and what does not interoperate yet.
The two chosen network operating systems are Juniper’s Junos and Cisco’s IOS XR. Although there are ...
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