Deploying Next Generation Multicast-enabled Applications: Label Switched Multicast for MPLS VPNs, VPLS, and Wholesale Ethernet

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There are a lot of technical and grammar misprints. Sometimes in a technical examples, sometimes in chapter name's. I'll wait a 2nd edition of this book without misprints and with color pictures.

Deploying Next Generation Multicast-enabled Applications: Label Switched Multicast for MPLS VPNs, VPLS, and Wholesale Ethernet This book is the best book about Multicast with we have today, but, using in Kindle PC this is the worse experience with i have using e-books.I don't know why, the publisher use a lot of images to show to us some commands in JUNOS / IOS, and this image is so huge and we can't see what they writing inside that.Please, buy the book but run away from Kindle PC.

The chapters 2 to 5 focus on Virtual Private Networks [VPNs] and on the prospects for improved performances. There are several directions or dimensions [in some generalised sense] that this could happen. One idea is to use multicasting, which is the central thread of the book.For VPN, multicasting could take several forms. But the book focuses on Draft-Rosen as one key implementation. This is contrasted to the current day unicast VPN. If you have used a VPN, chances are good that it was a form of the latter. One thing the reader soon finds is that facile knowledge is assumed of underlying methods like BGP, and of how to deal with networks that have a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. While it would be [much] simpler to have only one type of traffic, finally IPv6 is becoming common and as a practical matter, you should assume that your network will see both. It will be years later till you can expect to meet only IPv6. So the current era may be one of maximum difficulty in terms of handling both.Another aspect of the book is to show that there are several possible VPN topologies. Granted, for your specific network there might be only one realistic topology existing or possible for a VPN. But one value of the book is how it tries to encompass a variety.A lot of the text is taken up with example diagnostic output from a router or switch or hub. The sheer verbiage can be daunting. Though if you are a network administrator, you had better get used to this, fast.It should not be any surprise that Cisco is the most prominent network vendor mentioned in the book. But kudos to the authors for devoting an entire chapter to offerings from Alcatel Lucent, who have an intriguing take on this entire field of multicasting VPNs.

Deploying Next Generation Multicast-enabled Applications: Label Switched Multicast for MPLS VPNs, VPLS, and Wholesale Ethernet is a remarkable response to Internet video issues. According to Cisco Visual Networking Index, by 2012 Internet video will account for over 50 percent of consumer Internet traffic. The growing demand for video delivery triggers many technical and non-technical challenges, especially taking into account fierce competition in the market. No doubt that multicasting is the most effective and efficient method of video delivery in computer networks. Therefore, a lot of attention has been paid to multicasting recently. The authors have provided an excellent textbook covering the newest multicast technologies available on the Internet.

This book is about taking advantage of multicasting on the WAN network. Unicasting is one to one, and broadcasting is one to all, so many services and platforms may not be used to its utmost efficiency. IPTV (streaming internet TV), VPLS (virtual private LANs), MVPN (mobile virtual private networks), MSAN (telephone exchanges) are all highly compatible with multicasting over the BGP. The authors concentrate on the 3 largest networking vendors (Cisco, Juniper, and Lucent-Alcatel) and their OS (IOS, JUNOS, and TiMOS respectively), and provides great detail of actual router configs and outputs, which is much desired for beginners.

First off, this book is over an advanced topic and requires a bit of knowledge of general networking practices (aimed toward advance users, but as long as you know basic Networking protocols you should be able to follow). This book starts off with an extensive introduction into why, what, and how to implement Multicast-Enabled Applications; this book shows background into several companies that use or offer tools for implementation, and gives the reader building blocks to grow and understand the topic.The book is an easy read, and is well written (which makes learning this advance topic much easier). The book offers plenty of code snippets and console outputs to help the reader understand what they are seeing on their machine and what is being performed. The book also offers a plentiful amount of diagrams and charts to visually show how data is being transmitted through the network.In the end this is an easy to read with plenty of examples, diagrams, code snippets, and console outputs to allow for an easy to follow read, which makes this advance topic of future networking to be understood, and implemented in your VPN or work environment. A must for any engineer or network professional!