The latest JunOS IJNR (Intro to Juniper Networks Routers) material give a better overview of basic MPLS than any of the Ciscopress books. For a really really really good understanding of TE, check out the JunOS Advanced MPLS course stuff. For a strong in-depth discussion of all manners of MPLS VPN's, check out the JunOS Advanced VPN's materials.
However, if you want to study this stuff, I would advise you to wait until Juniper updates its training materials. JunOS 5.2 just came out, with a bevy of kickass MPLS features, and you should wait until the courses have been updated to include these features. For example, Martini-draft L2VPN's have just been implemented in JunOS. What is ironic is that IOS can also do Martini VPN's (on the 6500/7600) but there is nary a mention of it anywhere on the Cisco website besides stupid marketing papers. ""Sean Knox"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Heh, that's pretty ironic the book doesn't go into depth about traffic > engineering... um hello? Oh well. Which books out of the Juniper course > material go over MPLS? > > - Sean > > -----Original Message----- > From: nrf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MPLS and VPN Architectures book [7:34792] > > > The book is all-right, it's not great. It's OK as an intro book to the > subject. Unfortunately many of the more complex topics in later chapters > are written in such garbled way as to be almost unintelligible, particularly > some of the 'carrier of carrier' and 'Internet access' stuff, and those are > precisely the topics that need to be as clear as possible because of their > complexity. I swear, some of the grammar is so convuleted that the only > way to really understand everything in those chapters is to already know it > in the first place, but then if you already know it, why are you reading the > book at all? > > The book is also missing any mention of probably the most important reason > to use MPLS at all: traffic-engineering. Unfortunately there is no really > good Cisco book about this subject (it is covered briefly in IP Quality of > Service, but not in any serious depth). The best stuff I've ever found on > TE is, ahem, Juniper course material. > > But like I said, a decent intro book on the subject. > > > > ""Caplan M"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I'm reading it and so far I'm pleased with it. I haven't got to the VPN > > stuff yet though, but its given me a good grounging in tag switching and > MPLS. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=34964&t=34792 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
