Wiley Series in Communications Technology: MPLS-Enabled Applications (PDF)

"Here at last is a single, all-encompassing resourcewhere the myriad applications sharpen into a comprehensibletext." Kireeti Kompella, Juniper Fellow, JuniperNetworks.
The authoritative guide to MPLS, now in its second edition,fully updated with brand new material!
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is now considered thenetworking technology for carrying all types of network traffic,including voice telephony, real-time video, and data traffic. InMPLS-Enabled Applications, the Second Edition, the authorsmethodically show how MPLS holds the key to network convergence byallowing operators to offer more services over a single physicalinfrastructure. The Second Edition contains more than 150illustrations, new chapters, and more coverage, guiding the readerfrom the basics of the technology, including signaling protocols,traffic engineering and fast reroute, though all its majorapplications.
MPLS Enabled-Applications, Second Edition, containscomprehensive up-to-date coverage of:
* the current status and the future potential of all major MPLSapplications, including L3VPNs (Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks),L2VPNs (Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks), pseudowires and VPLS. (Virtual Private LAN Service).
* extensive discussion of multicast support over MPLS, includinga new chapter dedicated to multicast in VPNs, explaining both thePIM/GRE (Protocol Independent Multicast / Generic RoutingEncapsulation) and the next generation BGP/MPLS solutions, newmaterial on support of multicast in VPLS, a much-expanded chapteron MPLS multicast and a section perations and management (OAM)tools for point-to-multipoint LSPs.
* a new chapter on MPLS in access networks, as well as coverageof the use of MPLS in mobile and data communicationnetworks.
* interoperation of LDP(Label Distribution Protocol) and BGP(Border Gateway Protocol) based VPLS.
* comprehensive coverage of the base technology, as well asthe latest IETF drafts
With a foreword by Yakov Rekhter