Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation

Introduction

Ever since its inception and the introduction of commercial traffic in 1992, the Internet has grown rapidly from a research network to a worldwide commercial data network. The Internet has become a convenient and cost-effective medium for user collaboration, learning, electronic commerce, and entertainment. A common consensus is that the Internet will metamorphose into a medium for the convergence of voice, video, and data communications. The Internet has seen growth in terms of bandwidth, number of hosts, geographic size, and traffic volume. At the same time, it is evolving from best-effort service toward an integrated or differentiated services framework with quality of service (QoS) assurances, which are necessary for many new ...