MPLS-Based VPNs Designing Advanced Virtual Networks [Hardcover]

Peter Tomsu (Author), Gerhard Wieser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0130282251 | ISBN-13: 978-0130282255 | Edition: 1st

Thousands of midsize-to-large firms and service providers have come to depend on VPNs -- and, with MPLS technologies, they can enhance their VPNs with far greater scalability, performance, security, and efficiency. In this book, two leading Cisco experts give network engineers comprehensive guidance on implementing MPLS in any VPN environment. They presents comprehensive coverage of the functionality of IP-based MPLS VPNs, from key definitions to practical deployment and management techniques. Coverage includes: route distribution and VPN topologies, maximizing scalability, and advanced BGP design techniques that avoid common VPN problems. The book reviews several key enterprise deployment models, including ADSL, cable, mobile/wireless, and dial access VPNs. It presents essential background on Layer 3 switching, and outlines key differences between data- and topology-driven IP switching. Its MPLS coverage encompasses all salient techniques and considerations, including encapsulation, label distribution, and architecture. For all network engineers, designers, and others involved in deploying VPNs.

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From the Back Cover

The complete network engineer's guide to MPLS-based VPNs

• Maximizing VPN security, scalability, stability, and manageability
• Design, deployment, and management—start to finish
• Powerful BGP design techniques that avoid key problems
• Deployment models for ADSL, cable, mobile/wireless, and dial access VPNs

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) enables enterprises and service providers to supercharge their virtual private networks (VPNs), dramatically improving scalability, performance, security, and efficiency. In MPLS-Based VPNs: Designing Advanced Virtual Networks, two leading Cisco experts give network engineers comprehensive guidance on implementing MPLS in any VPN environment. Drawing on their extensive practical experience with MPLS, Peter Tomsu and Gerhard Weiser present start-to-finish coverage of design, deployment, and management. Coverage includes:

• Understanding the functionality of IP-based MPLS VPNs
• Comparing MPLS to alternative solutions: key benefits and essential tradeoffs
• Route distribution, VPN topologies, encapsulation, label distribution, and other key techniques and features
• Advanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) design techniques that avoid the most common VPN problems
• Enterprise deployment models for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), cable, mobile/wireless, and dial access VPNs
• MPLS for Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN architectures
• Current and future MPLS VPN applications

If you're ready to optimize the performance and value of your enterprise VPN, this systematic guide will show you how-every step of the way.

About the Author

PETER TOMSU, Ph.D., Senior Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, has worked with Cisco since 1996. He is involved in numerous network designs—for service provider backbones to large enterprise backbones—and is significantly driving new technologies during their definition, development, introduction, and final deployment phases. For many years, Tomsu has been a requested speaker at international conferences in the United States and worldwide. He is the co-author of Next Generation Optical Networking (Prentice Hall PTR).

GERHARD WEISER, M.A. leads a team of Systems Engineers at Cisco Systems. He has been with the company since 1998. He works primarily on the design and deployment of large service provider backbones and access networks. As a speaker for technical tutorials throughout Europe, he frequently shares his practical experience. He received his Masters Degree from the Fachhochschule Technikum Wien in Vienna, Austria.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education; 1st edition (December 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130282251
• ISBN-13: 978-0130282255
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,772,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Network Support Engineer, January 2, 2002

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"mpuras" (Palm Bay, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MPLS-Based VPNs Designing Advanced Virtual Networks (Hardcover)

I bought this book to help me understand MPLS-VPN's and the concept and architecture that make them work. I did not want a book that was vendor specific. Peter Tomsu and Gerhard Wieser delivered everything I was looking for. Both being from Cisco, they wrote the book from a neutral perspective and in a very easy to understand and follow through. Almost every page in this book I felt I had needed to highlight because it was just full of great points, explanations and tips. This is a book for beginners and advance engineers who just need a refresher or for those that needed to study for a certification like myself --Juniper.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Goodbye complexities, March 26, 2005

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Oscar Santolalla, Atiss Technologies (Lima, Perú) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MPLS-Based VPNs Designing Advanced Virtual Networks (Hardcover)

Every Network Engineer that has begun to explore about MPLS Technology has bumbed up with a huge and complex architecture. I've read it the book entirely and it helped me much more than other publications. Don't let its small size (224 pages) gives you an unfair impression.

The book explores thouroghly the BGP/MPLS VPN Architecure and makes you understand it easily. You can also find the relationship with many access technologies as Frame relay, ADSL and UMTS.

Strongly recommended for those who want to save hours understanding the MPLS and BGP/MPLS VPN architectures.