MPLS for Metropolitan Area Networks

Download or read book MPLS for Metropolitan Area Networks written by Nam-Kee Tan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MPLS for Metropolitan Area Networks demonstrates solutions provided by MPLS features. The text opens with an overview of metro networks and MPLS. It examines traffic engineering issues, focusing on fundamental TE concepts and network control. The author then discusses how MPLS can bring increased reliability to Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), and concludes with a detailed analysis of the service aspects of MANs. Topics reviewed include L3 and L2 MPLS VPNs, geographically dispersed Ethernet multipoint services, virtual private LAN services (VPLS), and the integrated services (IntServ) and differentiated services (DiffServ) QoS models with respect to MPLS.