Good MPLS/VPLS book?
Brandon Kim
brandon.kim at brandontek.com
Fri Dec 24 01:15:40 UTC 2010
Looks like a good book to add to my bookshelf. Cisco's MPLS fundamentals is also a good book although I'm only halfway through it....
> From: sfouant at shortestpathfirst.net
> To: mhelmest at uvic.ca; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: Good MPLS/VPLS book?
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:06:03 -0500
>
> IMO the best book on the market is 'MPLS-Enabled Applications' by Ina Minei,
> Julian Lucek. It has the best coverage all the things you mentioned plus
> VPLS, P2MP LSP, draft-rosen and NG-VPN multicast architectures and the
> explanations are clear and concise.
>
> I wrote a review of this book a while back:
>
> http://www.shortestpathfirst.net/2009/11/30/book-review-mpls-aplications/
>
> This book is awesome. You won't regret buying it.
>
> Stefan Fouant
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Helmeste [mailto:mhelmest at uvic.ca]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:49 PM
> > To: nanog at nanog.org
> > Subject: Good MPLS/VPLS book?
> >
> > Does anyone have a favorite book or resource discussing MPLS and all
> > associated Lego blocks (e.g. LDP, TE, VPLS, martini, mBGP et. al.)?
> >
> > I understand the basics of what MPLS is and how you create a circuit
> > from
> > A to B but I'm afraid it still escapes me when trying to figure out how
> > someone would, say, create a multicast capable VPN with 5 edge points.
> >
> > Any pointers to a good way to reduce my level of ignorance on this
> > subject would be appreciated. Vendor literature doesn't bother me as
> > long
> > as the concepts are there.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michael H.
> >
>
>
>
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