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MPLS Applications

  • Introduction
    • Why MPLS
    • Players involved with the MPLS specs
    • Basic MPLS framework
    • Today’s MPLS applications
  • Understanding Networks and MPLS in Terms of Planes
    • Control plane
    • Data plane
    • Management plane
  • Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
    • MPλS
    • Switching in time, wavelength, and space
    • GMPLS as a control plane of Wavelength-Switched Optical Network (WSON)
  • MPLS VPNs
    • Layer 3:  BGP-based
    • Layer 2:  Point-to-point
    • Layer 2:  Multipoint
    • Layer 1 circuit emulation
  • MPLS Traffic Engineering
    • Need for traffic engineering on Internet and other IP-based networks
    • TE Parameters
    • Unequal cost load balancing via metric manipulation
    • Advantages of MPLS traffic engineering
    • Basic concepts of MPLS traffic engineering
    • MPLS traffic engineering elements (dynamic/static LSPs)
    • MPLS traffic engineering configuration
    • Resource Reservation Protocol for Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE)
    • QoS and MPLS
  • Multicast L2/L3
    • Mcast backbone requirements
    • P2MP LSPs
    • P2MP PW
    • BGP P2MP
    • mVPN
  • Inter-AS/CSC
    • Inter-carrier requirements
    • MPLS-ICI
    • Multi-segment PW
  • Circuit Emulation
    • SAToP
    • CESoPSN
    • TDMoIP
    • CEM
  • Hierarchical LSP’s
    • Route aggregation and H-LDP
    • Hierarchical resource reservation
  • MPLS Resilience and OAM
    • Node/network level recovery
    • LSP/PW ping/traceroute
    • VCCV
    • PW redundancy
    • MC-LAC
    • MPLS/Ethernet OAM interworking
  • MPLS and Advanced/Emerging Technologies
    • Fixing the problems of SONET
    • Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) and Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON)
    • Separation of connectivity and services: Next Generation Network (NGN)
    • Getting rid of SONET: MPLS and Optical Transport Network (OTN)
    • MPLS and emerging very high speed Ethernet (>100 Mb/s)
    • New architectures for layer 2 functionality
    • Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
    • Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and MPLS
  • Conclusion: Recap, Q/A, and Evaluation

 

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