From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 12:03:16 GMT-3
At 4:44 PM +0200 9/9/04, CCIE wrote:
>Hi Group,
>
>I would like to learn MPLS but I don't know which book I should read first.
>Can someone recommend a good book for MPLS?
>
>Thanks for any suggestion
>
>Best regards
>
>Carlos
Seriously, I suggest starting at the IETF MPLS Working Group page
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mpls-charter.html
I've written about MPLS in several of my books, especially _Building
Service Provider Networks_, but these are design, not certification,
oriented. If you want to learn about SP applications of MPLS, great!
There may be books out there aimed at certification, but I can't
recommend one. Cisco's own training materials generally need
updating. When I've taught courses using them, I generally find I
have to spend substantial time at the board, getting across concepts
that are skimmed over in the courseware.
In particular, the courseware overemphasizes the forwarding aspect of
MPLS, and doesn't adequately cover either the path creation, or even
why people use MPLS. Carriers that use it do so principally for
traffic engineering and failover, not, as a lot of general works
suggest, diffserv-style QoS.
Some of the most important RFCs (title abbreviated):
Architecture: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3031.txt
Recovery: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3469.txt
RSVP-TE: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3209.txt
LDP Applicability: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3037.txt
Also look at http://www.mplsforum.org
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