From: CCIEin2006 (ciscocciein2006@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 16 2005 - 20:10:48 GMT-3
Dude I swear I just hit the order button on your book even before you sent
your email! I l look forward to reading it!
This forum is awesome - I feel like I'm hanging with the movie stars
themselves!
FYI to anyone who wants to buy Cisco books, if you order 3 or more on
CiscoPress.com you get 50% off until Dec 31st.
On 12/16/05, Chris Lewis <chrlewiscsco@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting thread. Putting aside the CsC discussion there rae a number of
> issues I would recommend one consider when buying an MPLS VPN service from
a
> provider. Strating with the following:
>
> If you implement QoS on your network, how is that going to map to the
> service provider QoS offering? Normally providers require marking of a
given
> type for admission to priority, or high priority data classes. Does this
> match your internal marking scheme? If not how are you going to map them
> together?
> Regarding routing metrics, will they be transported transparently through
> the provider network? If you are using BGP between CE and PE, are you OK
> with internal routes originated in say site 1, appearing as external routes
> in say site 2? Will that cause any issues during transition from the legacy
> to new network? Other CE to PE routihng protocols have other issues.
> How are you going to handle multicast between sites? MPLS VPNs typically
> only support unicast. Are you going to do a GRE tunnel overlay, or is your
> provider going to offer mVPN (not many do today).
>
> I hate to make a shameless plug, but after working with Cisco's internal
> IT department to convert Cisco's WAN from a frame network to a provider
> delivered MPLS VPN, we unearthed lots of issues to think about and wrote it
> all down in a book called "Selecting MPLS VPN services" by Cisco Press,
> available soon after the holidays.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 12/16/05, CCIEin2006 <ciscocciein2006@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good intro to MPLS book - specifically from an
> > enterprise and not from a service provider point of view.
> > I don't want to be bothered with the details of how MPLS works in a
> > telco
> > cloud, but I would like to know how to manage
> > the customer edge routers if my company plans on moving to MPLS.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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