ATM & MPLS Theory & Application: Foundations of Multi-Service Networking

High-speed networking--explained

Tap into the power of ATM and MPLS technology with this definitive guide. Focusing on practical application over theory, this book combines background information with detailed treatment of all key areas of ATM and MPLS technology--making this an essential resource. Youll find details on the topologies, protocols, and services used in todays digital communications networks, and read provocative predictions about how ATM and MPLS might evolve. Detailed, informative, and comprehensive, this is the ultimate resource for understanding and working with this essential and powerful networking technology.

This book will help you to:

• Understand basic communications networking principles, including circuits, multiplexing, and switching
  
• Work with both connection-oriented and connectionless protocols such as frame relay and IP
  
• Understand how ATM and MPLS support IP, data services, voice and video
  
• Discover the main application of MPLS in support of IP traffic engineering, as wells as network-based VPNs, and support of multiple services using tunneling
  
• Use traffic management, Quality of Service (QoS), and congestion control
  
• Become familiar with critical concepts of IP routed networks and LANs
  
• Learn about business drivers and the general architecture required for voice over packet networks
  
• Understand how to apply network management and performance measurement
  

Important topics include:

• Technology enablers and trends
  
• Time division multiplexing and N-ISDN
  
• Connection-oriented data protocols--X.25 and frame relay
  
• Ethernet LANs, bridging
  
• ATM and B-ISDN standards
  
• IP and MPLS standards
  
• MPLS and ATM routing and signaling
  
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  
• Network and performance management
  

Contents          

   Ch. 1: Business Drivers for ATM
   Ch. 2: Technology Enablers for ATM
   Ch. 3: Computer and Information Networking Directions
   Ch. 4: Networks, Circuits, Multiplexing, and Switching
   Ch. 5: Basic Protocol Concepts
   Ch. 6: Time Division Multiplexing and the Narrowband Integrated Services Digital Network (N-ISDN) 123
   Ch. 7: Connection-Oriented Protocols - X.25 and Frame Relay
   Ch. 8: Connectionless Protocols - IP and SMDS
   Ch. 9: LANS, Bridging, and Routing
   Ch. 10: ATM and B-ISDN Standards and Specifications
   Ch. 11: Introduction to ATM
   Ch. 12: Physical and ATM Layers
   Ch. 13: ATM Adaptation Layers
   Ch. 14: Higher-Layer User, Management, and Control Planes
   Ch. 15: Signaling and Routing in the Control Plane
   Ch. 16: ATM Hardware and Software
   Ch. 17: ATM Interworking with Voice and Video
   Ch. 18: ATM Interworking with Frame Relay, SMDS, DXI and FUNI
   Ch. 19: ATM in the Local Area Network
   Ch. 20: ATM and Internetworking
   Ch. 21: The Traffic Contract
   Ch. 22: ATM Traffic Control and Available Bit Rate (ABR)
   Ch. 23: Congestion Indication and Control
   Ch. 24: Basic Communications Engineering
   Ch. 25: Traffic Engineering
   Ch. 26: Design Considerations
   Ch. 27: Operational Philosophy and Network Management Architectures
   Ch. 28: Network Management Protocols and Management Information Bases (MIBs)
   Ch. 29: ATM Layer Management and Performance Measurement
   Ch. 30: Technologies Competing with ATM in the WAN
   Ch. 31: Technologies Competing with ATM in the LAN
   Ch. 32: Future Directions involving ATM