MPLS in the SDN Era: Interoperable Scenarios to Make Networks Scale to New Services

How can you make multivendor services work smoothly on today’s complex networks? This practical book shows you how to deploy a large portfolio of multivendor Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) services on networks, down to the configuration level. You’ll learn where Juniper Network’s Junos, Cisco’s IOS XR, and OpenContrail, interoperate and where they don’t.

Two network and cloud professionals from Juniper describe how MPLS technologies and applications have rapidly evolved through services and architectures such as Ethernet VPNs, Network Function Virtualization, Seamless MPLS, Egress Protection, External Path Computation, and more. This book contains no vendor bias or corporate messages, just solid information on how to get a multivendor network to function optimally.

Topics include:

• Introduction to MPLS and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
• The four MPLS Builders (LDP, RSVP-TE, IGP SPRING, and BGP)
• Layer 3 unicast and multicast MPLS services, Layer 2 VPN, VPLS, and Ethernet VPN
• Inter-domain MPLS Services
• Underlay and overlay architectures: data centers, NVO, and NFV
• Centralized Traffic Engineering and TE bandwidth reservations
• Scaling MPLS transport and services
• Transit fast restoration based on the IGP and RSVP-TE
• FIB optimization and egress service for fast restoration

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to MPLS and SDN
Chapter 2. The Four MPLS Builders
Chapter 3. Layer 3 Unicast MPLS Services
Chapter 4. Internet Multicast Over MPLS
Chapter 5. Multicast VPN
Chapter 6. Point-to-Point Layer 2 VPNs
Chapter 7. Virtual Private LAN Service
Chapter 8. Ethernet VPN
Chapter 9. Inter-Domain MPLS Services
Chapter 10. Underlay and Overlay Architectures
Chapter 11. Network Virtualization Overlays
Chapter 12. Network Function Virtualization
Chapter 13. Introduction to Traffic Engineering
Chapter 14. TE Bandwidth Reservations
Chapter 15. Centralized Traffic Engineering
Chapter 16. Scaling MPLS Transport and Seamless MPLS
Chapter 17. Scaling MPLS Services
Chapter 18. Transit Fast Restoration Based on the IGP
Chapter 19. Transit Fast Restoration Based on RSVP-TE
Chapter 20. FIB Optimization for Fast Restoration
Chapter 21. Egress Service Fast Restoration