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| | RFC 3031 (rfc3031) - Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture |
 | | Label Switched Path (LSP), LSP Ingress, LSP Egress A "Label Switched Path (LSP) of level m" for a particular packet P is a sequence of routers, with the following properties: 1. | | | A router which supports MPLS is known as a "Label Switching Router", or LSR. | | | ATM switches use the input port and the incoming VPI/VCI value as the index into a "cross-connect" table, from which they obtain an output port and an outgoing VPI/VCI value. |
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http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3031.html
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| | Evolution of Multiprotocol Label Switching |
| | A tree results because of the "merging" of switched paths that occurs at a node when multiple upstream switched paths for a given stream are spliced to a single downstream switched path for the stream. | | | Label switch routers (LSR) in MPLS use link-level forwarding to provide a simple and fast packet-forwarding capability. | | | She was also a key member of the High Performance Computing and Communication Department which was responsible for the design and implementation of IBM's NSFNet Router and Milford Router. |
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http://www.comsoc.org/ci/private/1998/may/Feldman.html
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| | Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls) Charter |
| | ICMP Extensions for MultiProtocol Label Switching (13174 bytes) | | | Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture (RFC 3031) (147175 bytes) | | | Label Distribution Protocol Extensions for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths (40605 bytes) |
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http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mpls-charter.html
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| | Has telecom's 'next big thing' arrived? CNET News.com |
| | The main advantage of label switching is that it allows routers to make forwarding decisions based on the contents of a simple label, rather than by performing a complex lookup based on a so-called destination IP address. | | | In many ways, the label switched paths of MPLS are no different than circuit-switched paths in traditional telecommunication technologies such as ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) or Frame Relay networks. | | | Packets are forwarded along a label switch path where each router makes forwarding decisions based solely on the contents of the label. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1037-5155033.html
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| | MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) (Linktionary term) |
| | MPLS is an IETF specification based on label switching approaches developed by several vendors, including Cisco (Tag Switching), IBM (ARIS or Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching), and Lucent/Ascend (IP Navigator, originally developed by Cascade). | | | A label is like shorthand notation that indexes the forwarding decision made by routers. | | | An LSP is a concatenation of switch hops that form an end-to-end forwarding path. |
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http://www.linktionary.com/m/mpls.html
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| | Tag Switching Protocols - TDP MPLS |
| | This protocol attaches labels to IP and IPv6 protocols in the network layer, after the data link layer headers, but before the network layer headers. | | | Tag switching routers use this protocol to communicate tag binding information to their peers. | | | The setting of this field affects the scheduling and or discard algorithms which are applied to the packet as it is transmitted through the network. |
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http://www.protocols.com/pbook/tag.htm
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| | Multiprotocol Label Switching |
| | Also, the label switching router (LSR) is a crucial topic for the next-generation router, attracting attention from switching and IP communities. | | | Therefore, the inevitable trend of integrating both switching and routing together well serves and benefits both the telecommunications and IP networking communities simultaneously. | | | His current research interests include ATM-based broadband switching and networking technologies, and Internet technologies. |
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http://www.comsoc.org/ci1/private/1999/dec/Guestkuo.html
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| | The MPLS Resource Center - Resources for Multiprotocol Label Switching |
| | Network Digest: Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) was invented to solve the problem of bridging multiple disparate protocols such as Frame Relay, ATM and Ethernet. | | | Foundry: Foundry Networks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, and Limelight Networks Inc., the world's leading content delivery network for digital media, today announced the purchase of Foundry’s NetIron XMR routers at the TelecomNEXT trade show and conference in Las Vegas. | | | The strength of these protocols combined with the popularity of MPLS core networks have made MPLS a logical choice for extending into metro networks. |
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http://www.mplsrc.com
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| | MPLS - Multi-Protocol Label Switching |
| | ATM switches are ideally suited for implementing label switching because label switching uses mechanisms that already exist in ATM switching hardware, replacing VPI/VCI swapping with label swapping. | | | Layer-2 switching is positioned in the core of the network, where high concentrations of packet traffic mean that high-performance packet forwarding is required. | | | Label switching enables packet forwarding at Layer 2 and eliminates the need for Layer-3 forwarding. |
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http://www.ericsson.com/technology/tech_articles/MPLS.shtml
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| | IEC: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) |
| | Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) is a versatile solution to address the problems faced by present-day networks—speed, scalability, quality-of-service (QoS) management, and traffic engineering. | | | MPLS has emerged as an elegant solution to meet the bandwidth-management and service requirements for next-generation Internet protocol (IP)—based backbone networks. | | | Consider these and other benefits of our FREE registration, or register by clicking here. |
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http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/mpls
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