MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools, and Techniques

The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking MPLS-enabled networks are enjoying tremendous growth, but practical information on managing MPLS-enabled networks has remained hard to find. Until now. MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools, and Techniques is the first and only book that will help you master MPLS management technologies and techniques, as they apply to classic MPLS networks, traffic-engineered networks, and VPNs. Written by the co-author of most current MPLS management standards, it provides detailed, authoritative coverage of official MIBs, examining key topics ranging from syntax to access levels to object interaction. It also offers extensive consideration of third-party management interfaces, including tools for metering traffic and predicting traffic growth and behavior. If you"re a network operator, network device engineer, or MPLS application developer, you need this book to get all you can out of all of MPLS"s many capabilities. The only book devoted entirely to the tools and techniques for...