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
- 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
