A guide to designing and implementing VPLS services over an IP/MPLS switched service provider backbone. Today's communication providers are looking for convenience, simplicity, and flexible bandwidth across wide area networks-but with the quality of service and control that is critical for business networking applications like video, voice and data. Carrier Ethernet VPN services based on VPLS makes this a reality. Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is a pseudowire (PW) based, multipoint-to-multipoint layer 2 Ethernet VPN service provided by services providers By deploying a VPLS service to customers, the operator can focus on providing high throughput, highly available Ethernet bridging services and leave the layer 3 routing decision up to the customer.
Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) is quickly becoming the number one choice for many enterprises and service providers to deploy data communication networks. Alcatel-Lucent VPLS solution enables service providers to offer enterprise customers the operational cost benefits of Ethernet with the predictable QoS characteristics of MPLS.
Items Covered:
- Building Converged Service Networks with IP/MPLS VPN Technology
- IP/MPLS VPN Multi-Service Network Overview
- Using MPLS Label Switched Paths as Service Transport Tunnels
- Routing Protocol Traffi c Engineering and CSPF
- RSVP-TE Protocol
- MPLS Resiliency — Secondary LSP
- MPLS Resiliency - RSVP-TE LSP Fast Reroute
- Label Distribution Protocol
- IP/MPLS VPN Service Routing Architecture
- Virtual Leased Line Services
- Virtual Private LAN Service
- Hierarchical VPLS
- High Availability in an IP/MPLS VPN Network
- VLL Service Resiliency
- VPLS Service Resiliency
- VPLS BGP Auto-Discovery
- PBB-VPLS
- OAM in a VPLS Service Network
