Next-Generation Network Services

Chapter 3. Multiservice Networks

This chapter covers the following topics:

• The Origins of Multiservice ATM

• Next-Generation Multiservice Networks

• Multiprotocol Label Switching Networks

• Cisco Next-Generation Multiservice Routers

• Multiservice Core and Edge Switching

Multiservice networks provide more than one distinct communications service type over the same physical infrastructure. Multiservice implies not only the existence of multiple traffic types within the network, but also the ability of a single network to support all of these applications without compromising quality of service (QoS) for any of them.

You find multiservice networks primarily in the domain of established service providers that are in the long-term business of providing wireline ...