MPLS: Next Steps

Front Cover

MPLS: Next Steps

Copyright Page

Contents

About the Editors

About the Authors

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

1.1 Source Material

1.2 Contents of this Book

SECTION A: MPLS BASICS

CHAPTER 2 Overview of the MPLS Data Plane

2.1 Network Layer Routing Functional Components: Control and Forwarding

2.2 Label Switching: The Forwarding Component

2.3 Label Switching: The Control Component

2.4 Edge Devices

2.5 Relationship between Label Switching and Network Layer Addressing and Routing

CHAPTER 3 Overview of MPLS Protocols

3.1 Foundations of MPLS Protocols

3.2 Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)

3.3 Traffic Engineering in MPLS

3.4 Prioritizing Traffic in MPLS

CHAPTER 4 From MPLS to GMPLS

4.1 The Origins of GMPLS

4.2 Basic GMPLS Requirements

SECTION B: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

CHAPTER 5 Traffic Engineering

5.1 What Is IP Traffic Engineering?

5.2 Routing IP Flows

5.3 Choosing Offline or Dynamic Traffic Engineering

5.4 Choosing to Use Traffic Engineering

5.5 Traffic Engineering in MPLS

5.6 GMPLS and Traffic Engineering

5.7 GMPLS Traffic Engineering Definitions

5.8 GMPLS Traffic Engineering Protocols

5.9 Traffic Engineering Link Bundling

5.10 Traffic Engineering Regions and Switching Layers

5.11 Inter-Domain Traffic Engineering

5.12 Service Path Re-Optimization

CHAPTER 6 Providing Quality of Service

6.1 What is Quality of Service?

6.2 MPLS Traffic Engineering for QoS

6.3 Traffic Engineering and QoS Optimization of MPLS-Based Integrated Voice/Data Dynamic Routing Networks

6.4 Class-of-Service Routing

6.5 Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation, Protection and Reservation Principles

6.6 Queuing Mechanisms

6.7 Internet QoS Resource Management

6.8 Summary and Conclusions

6.9 Applicability of Requirements

CHAPTER 7 MPLS Traffic Engineering Recovery Mechanisms

7.1 MPLS Traffic Engineering Terminology

7.2 Analysis of the Recovery Cycle

7.3 MPLS Traffic Engineering Global Default Restoration

7.4 MPLS Traffic Engineering Global Path Protection

7.5 MPLS Traffic Engineering Local Protection

7.6 Another MPLS Traffic Engineering Recovery Alternative

7.7 Comparison of Global and Local Protection

7.8 Revertive versus Nonrevertive Modes

7.9 Failure Profile and Fault Detection

7.10 Standardization

7.11 Summary

7.12 RSVP Signaling Extensions for MPLS TE Local Protection

7.13 Backup Path Computation

CHAPTER 8 GMPLS and Service Recovery

8.1 Failures in Transport Networks

8.2 Network Survivability Definitions

8.3 Service Recovery Cycle

8.4 Service Recovery Classes

8.5 Recovery Levels and Scopes

8.6 Span Recovery

8.7 Path Recovery

8.8 Control Plane Recovery

SECTION C: OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT, AND SECURITY

CHAPTER 9 Management Techniques

9.1 Key Aspects of MPLS Network Management

9.2 Management Information Base Modules for MPLS

9.3 MPLS-LSR MIB at a Glance

9.4 Managing LDP

9.5 The MPLS FTN MIB

9.6 The MPLS-TE MIB Overview

9.7 MIB Extensions for Advanced MPLS-TE Function and GMPLS

CHAPTER 10 Monitoring and Maintenance

10.1 LSP Ping

10.2 LSP Traceroute

10.3 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

10.4 Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification

CHAPTER 11 MPLS Security

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Network Model

11.3 Threats

11.4 Defensive Techniques

11.5 Summary

SECTION D: PROVIDING SERVICES WITH MPLS

CHAPTER 12 Virtual Private Networks

12.1 VPN Overview

12.2 MPLS VPNs

12.3 MPLS VPN Security

12.4 QoS Support in MPLS VPNs

12.5 Choosing a VPN Technology

CHAPTER 13 Pseudowires

13.1 Pseudowire Architecture

13.2 Pseudowire Encapsulation

13.3 Pseudowire Control and Establishment

13.4 Multisegment Pseudowires

CHAPTER 14 Multidomain Networking

14.1 End-to-End Signaling Techniques

14.2 LSP Hierarchies

14.3 LSP Stitching

14.4 The Path Computation Element

CHAPTER 15 Multicast and Point-to-Multipoint

15.1 P2MP LSPs in the Forwarding Plane

15.2 Multicast LDP

15.3 P2MP MPLS-TE

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