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MPLS: Technology and Applications
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Author: Bruce Davie, Yakov Rekhter
List Price: $47.95
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ISBN: 1558606564
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (19 May, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 12,611
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Exceptional
With ever increasing demand for performance, scalability and efficiency, new technologies/protocols are born with ever increasing complexity creating a fertile ground for authors/publishers to write cut and paste books. Most of these authors do not have a sound and broad enough background to describe the subject matter well. Bruce Davie and Yakov Rekther are rare exceptions. Their deep knowledge shines through the pages. It may not be the most detailed book on the market about the subject. But who can complain, when you can learn 80 percent of the technology for 20 percent of the time invested. If you want to learn about routing in general and MPLS in particular, please buy this book. I have shelf full of books buy the other authors gathering dust.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Best Book yet on MPLS!!!!!
This is the best book yet on the Complex MPLS technology. Anyone who is interested in increasing his knowledge of MPLS technology MUST read this book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good and comprehensive but a too theoretical
The book "MPLS: Technology and Applications" describes the MPLS protocol, some related around it as well as the history of IP/tag switching. It is very obvious that the book is written by two experts that were very much involved in the evolution of IP/tag switching.Almost everything you need to know about MPLS is covered in this book. The book is clearly structured and well organized and kept quite compact. The problems that led to the development of MPLS are very well explained, the introduction and chapter 2, the fundamental concepts, are clear and to the point. The following chapters, describing the two most important proprietary predecessors of MPLS are quite valuable for understanding some of the decisions that led to the definition of MPLS. Unfortunately, the book is too theoretical and only gives an overview of the MPLS technology. Although the text is written quite well, more and better illustrations and diagrams and most of all some examples would help to understand the presented concepts much better. I admire every author that manages to write a book with 200-400 pages, but in this case I wish they would have covered some of the technical aspects, especially in the chapters about the MPLS core protocols and the QoS, in more detail. Overall this is a good book that covers all of the important aspects of MPLS but some of the chapters are too theoretical and hard to understand without any illustrations and examples.
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