From: joshua lauer (jslauer@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 12:16:22 GMT-3
I used the MPLS/VPN book by cisco press, that's what I used for the CCIP
exams. It's difficult to digest but information rich.
Josh Lauer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: Which book recommendet for MPLS Study??
> 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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