Rick Gallaher's MPLS Training Guide: Building Multi Protocol Label Switching Networks [Paperback]

Syngress (Author), Rick Gallaher (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1932266003 | ISBN-13: 978-1932266009 | Publication Date: April 2003 | Edition: 1

This book introduces readers to mpls concepts, installation, migration, operation, inspection, and troubleshooting.
It discusses specific router and switch platforms and includes such topics as frame-mode mpls, cell-mode mpls, label distribution protocol, tag distribution protocol, label distribution protocol migration, mpls configuration, traffic engineering, mpls vpns, mpls vpn deployment models, mpls vpn routing protocol support, multi-protocol bgp, mpls vpn configurations, mpls vpn integration, and mpls vpn management.

Readers will find complete ready-to-use configurations for routers
Shows how to implement MPLS traffic engineering on a core network and optimize traffic
Great for users studying for Cisco's Implementing Cisco MPLS exam, 640-910 and written by a Cisco internetworking expert who knows everything about MPLS.
Includes coverage of Cisco Systems' newly released (October 7, 2002) Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Bandwidth Protection software package. The new architecture uses MPLS Traffic Engineering Fast Reroute and an offline application called Tunnel Builder Pro to increase resiliency at a network-wide level.
Includes updated coverage of MPLS and GMPLS

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Course Director for Global Knowledge and President of Telecommunications Technical Services, Inc

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (April 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932266003
• ISBN-13: 978-1932266009
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,084,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent AND Enjoyable!, September 13, 2004

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Simon Osburn "Simon O." (Captain Cook, HI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rick Gallaher's MPLS Training Guide: Building Multi Protocol Label Switching Networks (Paperback)

Having read DOZENS of IT textbooks and glossaries and how-to guides, and knowing intimately the miserable vacuum that IT books tend to comprise (in terms of both rigid didactics and MENSA-marinated peacock preening), I will say that "Rick Gallaher's MPLS Training Guide" presents a welcome alternative -- finally. While there is (and will be) much more to discover about MPLS than is discussed in this primer, the beauty of this book is that the reader doesn't have to endure hundreds of pages of arrogance in order to learn something. Gallaher respects both the reader and the learning curve -- as though he's sharing the information because he believes that it should be shared, rather than revealing it because the reader knows some secret handshake -- and manages successfully to sidestep the self-indulgence and garish elitism that so often sinks IT books. In dismantling the us-them barrier between MPLS concepts and newcomers, Rick Gallaher has put some oxygen into the process of IT learning.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Book! Makes MPLS seem easy! LOTS of great pictures, January 3, 2005

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Wayne R. Howe (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rick Gallaher's MPLS Training Guide: Building Multi Protocol Label Switching Networks (Paperback)

This is a brilliant book, because Rick Gallaher makes MPLS very clear and easy to understand! The book is LOADED with LOTS of excellent diagrams, and Rick puts the whole thing together with great, simple, and clear explanations! Rick is also one of the few writers who clearly understand that over-engineering bandwidth does not solve the QoS problems! MOST EXCELLENT!!!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wicked Intense Training Manual, November 27, 2004

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Craig Szymanski "Craig" (Boston, Mass) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rick Gallaher's MPLS Training Guide: Building Multi Protocol Label Switching Networks (Paperback)

This is a wicked intense manual. I was given this book as a holiday gift last year, and I found it to be very intense and full of good metaphors and intelligent information. This year, I'm using the book as a training guide fro the students in my class starting in January. And I've asked for another copy for the holidays (this time to highlight allt he important analogies!)