Chapter 6. Service Provider MPLS VPN Services Design

Chapter 4, “Enterprise Edge Architecture Design,” discussed the various design considerations, advantages, and limitations of the modern Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) virtual private networking (VPN) solutions as a wide-area network (WAN) transport from the enterprise network design perspective. This chapter covers the different design options and considerations of MPLS VPN (both Layer 2 and Layer 3) from the service provider perspective.

MPLS VPN (L3VPN)

MPLS L3VPN is the most popular and proven service offered by the majority of today’s service providers. This is because of several benefits (covered in Chapter 4) that enterprises can leverage to meet their business and technology ...

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