Mpls: Technology and Applications

An excellent intro to MPLS. It covers in the first four chapters the technical reasons to develop such a technology, data (Ipsilon)and control (Cisco Tag Switching) driven IP switching technologies. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 present MPLS standard protocols, QoS under MPLS and Constraint Based Routing for traffic engineering and other applications. Finally, Chapter 8 covers VPN as a main application of MPLS. It might be a little outdated now with more MPLS standards and applications has been developed that are not discussed/detailed in the book (such as Multicast support, IP-VPN, VPLS, etc). Sherif

With ever increasing demand for performance, scalability and efficiency, new technologies/protocols are born with ever increasing complexity creating a fertile ground for authors/publishers to write cut and paste books. Most of these authors do not have a sound and broad enough background to describe the subject matter well. Bruce Davie and Yakov Rekther are rare exceptions. Their deep knowledge shines through the pages. It may not be the most detailed book on the market about the subject. But who can complain, when you can learn 80 percent of the technology for 20 percent of the time invested. If you want to learn about routing in general and MPLS in particular, please buy this book. I have shelf full of books buy the other authors gathering dust.

This is the best book yet on the Complex MPLS technology. Anyone who is interested in increasing his knowledge of MPLS technology MUST read this book.

Who can write a better book on mpls than the guys on the forefront of this technology and defining the IETF standards. I was waiting for this sequel ever since the Switching in IP networks book. The details about Toshiba's CSR and IBM's ARIS are narrowed down. Most of the information in the following chapters is pretty much the same as in the previous book but chapter 7 and onwards is a killer. I have not seen such a good explanation of constraint based routing, CSPF calculation and CR-LDP. Armed with this information, relevant RFCs are making whole lotta more sense to me now. Intserv and Diffserv are briefly explained but in a style that makes you say 'aaaah I get it now!'There are some spelling and typos here and there. Signaling is mostly spelled as 'signalling'. All in all this book is a must have for anyone working on MPLS technology. I'm working on MPLS and keep this book handy at all times.Good job guys!

This books is right on target. It covered MPLS from beginning to end and is great for all levels. The authors did a very good job of not delving into vendor specific design or products and RFC-related gory details. This is the only placed that explained most of my questions. This is well worth the time and money. Enjoy!