GMPLS Technologies addresses the basics, network architectures, protocol, and traffic engineering needed to operate MPLS and GMPLS networks. The book begins with an introduction to broadband networks. It describes the basics of control-oriented networks and IP, and examines the fundamentals of MPLS. This volume covers MPLS applications, and details IP router structures. It illustrates GMPLS, and explores studies on traffic engineering in GMPLS Networks. The text concludes with a description of IP, MPLS, and GMPLS standardization topics. Network equipment design engineers and network service provision engineers can reference this book to understand the crucial techniques for building MPLS/GMPLS-based networks.

Naoaki Yamanaka, Kohei Shiomoto, Eiji Oki

Broadband and Multimedia

Basic Mechanism of Connection Oriented Networks

Connection-Oriented Communications and ATM

Internet Protocol: IP

MPLS Basics

Application of MPLS

Structure of IP Router

GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching)

Traffic-Engineering in Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching
(GMPLS) Networks