Advanced QoS for Multi-Service IP/MPLS Networks [Paperback]

Ramji Balakrishnan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470293691 | ISBN-13: 978-0470293690 | Publication Date: May 27, 2008 | Edition: 1

Advanced QoS for Multi-Service IP/MPLS Networks is the definitive guide to Quality of Service (QoS), with comprehensive information about its features and benefits. Find a solid theoretical and practical overview of how QoS can be implemented to reach the business objectives defined for an IP/MPLS network. Topics include standard QoS models for IP/MPLS networks, essential QoS features, forwarding classes and queuing priorities, buffer management, multipoint shared queuing, hierarchical scheduling, and rate limiting. This book will enable you to create a solid QoS architecture/design, which is mandatory for prioritizing services throughout the network.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

This essential guide helps you understand the features and benefits of service-aware hierarchical Quality of Service (QoS) and how to leverage QoS in designing and implementing leading-edge IP networks. The author's vast experience provides a solid theoretical and practicaloverview of how QoS can be implemented to reach the business objectives defined for an IP/MPLS network.

The knowledge acquired from this book will enable the network professional to create a solid QoS architecture/design, which is mandatory to prioritize services throughout the network. The book is a reference I will return to again and again."
—Brent Conrad, Senior Network Architect, Bell Canada

This book educates readers on the detail operation of Quality of Service through IP/MPLS networks for converged services. I highly recommend it for network designers and test engineers."
—Dean Lee, Senior Product Manager, IXIA

About the Author

Ram Balakrishnan, a senior Network Design Architect with Alcatel-Lucent, is a renowned QoS and Triple-Play expert and educator. Leveraging his IP/MPLS knowledge in addition to his QoS expertise, Ram has led service provider and enterprise initiatives globally to design and implement converged multi-service networks. He holds patents related to intelligent routing algorithms. A frequent contributor to the Alcatel-Lucent Telecommunications Review, Ram has over 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry. He holds a BE degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Annamalai University, India, and MS degrees in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Ram is also a certified Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing Architect (Alcatel-Lucent SRA No. 10).

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 27, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470293691
• ISBN-13: 978-0470293690
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #533,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A 'must-have' book for Alcatel-Lucent Service Routers' users, August 6, 2008

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This review is from: Advanced QoS for Multi-Service IP/MPLS Networks (Paperback)

The book is devided into three different parts:
1st. Brief introduction of QoS concepts
2nd. The main one. A comprehensive description of how the theoretical concepts introduced in the first part are implemented in Alcatel-Lucent Service Routers.
3rd. A brief case study about how to design the QoS of an IP/MPLS network of Alcatel-Lucent Service Routers.

This book is compulsory for somebody studing to get Alcatel-Lucent certifications and also, as a reference book, for Alcatel-Lucent Service Routers' networks architects who are responsible for IP/MPLS networks QoS design.
If you are looking for a book of theory about QoS in IP/MPLS networks, this is not your book, as it is mainly focused on how QoS policies can be implemented in Alcatel Lucent Service Routers.
Before reading the book, I would also recommend becoming familiar with Service Router's concepts like SAPs, SDPs, how services are configured, etc. It will help you to better understand the frequent command line interface listings.
Mr. Balakrishnan is able to clearly describe a very complex issue like the implementation of QoS policies in a routing platform is and provides the reader with valuable 'best-practices' for Alcatel-Lucent's Service Routers' QoS policies design and also with command line interface listings.
In a nutshell, this book gives you an extraordinary description of all the possibilities that IP/MPLS networks, consisting of Alcatel Lucent Service Routers, offer, when defining their QoS policies.