Chapter 5. Advanced MPLS Topics

Up until this point, this book has concentrated on explaining the concepts and mechanisms that make up the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) architecture. This chapter aims to provide further information on some more advanced topics that you face when deploying this architecture.

The guidelines presented in this chapter are specific to the MPLS architecture and are relevant to any deployment, regardless of whether advanced features, such as VPN, are used within the infrastructure. You can find further guidelines that are important for the successful deployment of the MPLS/VPN architecture in Chapter 13, "Guidelines for the Deployment of MPLS/VPN."

You have seen already how MPLS labels are distributed between adjacent ...

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