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RE: Good MPLS/VPLS book?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Thu Dec 23 18:06:09 2010
From: "Stefan Fouant" <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
To: "'Michael Helmeste'" <mhelmest@uvic.ca>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012231445520.57378@lorien.vbc-apt.ubertel.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:06:03 -0500
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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@uvic.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:49 PM
> To: nanog@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.
>
