Multi-Protocol Label Switching - MPLS
Multi-Protocol Label Switching, more commonly referred to as MPLS, was defined in the late 1990sas a traffic engineering mechanism to replace IP over ATM in Internet backbones. In the mid-90s efforts were made to combine IP and ATM technologies, the first one being IP switching developed by Ipsilon, competition came very quickly from other companies, notably Cisco with “Tag Switching”, IBM with “Aggregate Route-based IP Switching” and Cascade with “IP Navigator”. All of these solutions had the same goal, which was to improve the throughput and delay performance of IP. Their basic approach to this was very similar, use a standard routing protocol such as OSPF to define paths between endpoints, assign packets to these paths as they enter the network and use ATM to move the packets along the paths. In the mid ninety’s ATM switches were much faster than IP routers and it was intended to use these methods to improve performance by increasing traffic on existing ATM hardware.
By 1997 the IETF set up the MPLS working group to develop a standardised approach to all of these proprietary initiatives by defining a new core networking environment capable of carrying multiple traffic types over a common infrastructure. It was intended to provide for a universal transport mechanism enabling currently deployed technology to interact with new technology. The first set of proposals was published in 2001, by this time routers had become as fast as ATM switches thus eliminating the need to provide both IP and ATM technologies on the same network.
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http://www.techworld.com/cmsdata/whitepapers/5139/MPLS_Net_WP.pdf
Joint Techs Workshops: GMPLS Tutorial
http://dragon.maxgigapop.net/twiki/pub/DRAGON/JointTechsFeb2006/GMPLS_Tutorial_and_RandE_Network_Implementation.pdf
CrossTalk: MPLS Tutorial
http://blog.tmcnet.com/cross-talk/phonenomenal-iphone.asp
MPLS Tutorial
http://www.mplstutorial.com/
Search Networking: MPLS Technology Overwiew
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid7_gci1225222,00.html
Books:
Gray. Edward W. (2001) MPLS: Implementing the Technology, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Reagan. James (2002) Cisco CCIP MPLS Study Guide, Sybex
Morrow. Monique, Sayeed. Azhar (2006) MPLS and Next-Generation Networks: Foundations for NGN and Enterprise Virtualization, Cisco Press
De Ghien. Luc (2007) MPLS Fundamentals, Cisco Press
As with the introduction 10 GE, there came some issues that would arise for a variety of reason. The standards were in ally developed to alleviate bottleneck on large networks, and though it can complete such a task, it still faces issues in proper deployment and efficiently transferring data between networks.
With an IPv4 network, all the work consisting of network renumbering and assigning of new address schemes would had been done manually. Another useful feature of IPv6 is the multi-homing technique. It allows simultaneous connections which are established to two ISPs. Compared to IPv4, IPv6 has a much simpler packet header structure, which is designed to minimize the time and efforts that go in to header processing. IPv6 offers better end-to-end connectivity than its predecessor IPv4. The most exciting applications to emerge in todays world is peer-to-peer applications such as multi-player online games, video-conferencing (streaming), file sharing and
The immigration of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans has brought tremendous talent and great people. However, in the process, the culture of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are slowly diminishing. The idea of jobs being readily available for immigrants has deprived the culture and saturated the perception of Latin Americans as workaholics. The essays I chose were Puro Border and the Puerto Rican Obituary. Both essays have given context of how Puerto Ricans and Mexicans are slowly losing their identity in this great America. Also in this essay I will be explaining how material wealth can cause the border to become a vacuum.
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Sending data through the internet efficiently has always posed many problems. The two major technologies used, Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), have done an admirable job of porting data, voice and video from one point to another. However, they both fall short in differing areas; neither has been able to present the "complete" package to become the single, dominant player in the internet market. They both have dominant areas they cover. Ethernet has dominated the LAN side, while ATM covers the WAN (backbone). This paper will compare the two technologies and determine which has a hand-up in the data trafficking world.
When a change is created through the insertion of a gene into an organism to change the organism’s trait and/or expression it is known as Gene Transformation. Bacteria will be transformed with a gene which codes for (GFP) Green Fluorescing Protein in this experiment. Bacteria containing the gene GFP will be combined with them to cause them to glow bright-green when exposed to ultraviolet light (Nobel, A. 2000) Plasmid DNA contained genes for one or more traits that may be beneficial to survival. In this lab, pGLO is resistant to ampicillin which is antibiotic. GFP, the gene, can be “switched” on in genetically transformed cells, by adding arabinose, a type of sugar, to the cells’ nutrient medium (Weedman, 2014) Cells that are successfully transformed will colonize, by growing on plates with LB/amp, and appear white on plates without arabinose when exposed to Ultraviolet Light.
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a link-state routing protocol which uses link state routing algorithm for Internet Protocol (IP) networks.Using OSPF, th convergence of a network can be done in very few seconds, loop-free paths can be guaranteed and better load-sharing on external links can be achievd. Every change in the topology of the network is identified within seconds using OSPF and it instantaneously computes the “shortest path tree” for every route using “Dijkstra's algorithm” . For that reason, OSPF requires a router which have a more powerful processor and more memory than any other routing protocols which leads to more elect...
In addressing the problem, the proposed research will use the case study method to examine the plan, design, and implementation of WLAN technologies at Berean. At present, the non-wireless local area network (LAN) technologies employed by Berean include 10/100BaseT Ethernet at each desktop. Ethernet ports at the desktop are switch connected to an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) T1 backbone. Berean¡¦s one remote facility connects to the network using switched Frame Relay services along with Internet Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections.
ATM uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing to encode and transfer data in the form of cells or packets of a fixed size. It is normally used by Internet service providers on their private long-distance networks. It operates at the data link layer (Layer 2 in the OSI model) over either fiber or twisted-pair cable. It uses a connection-oriented model in which a virtual circuit must be established between two endpoints before the actual data exchange occurs. These virtual circuits may be dedicated connections that are usually preconfigured by the service provider, or “switched”, i.e. set up on a per-call basis using signaling and disconnected when the call is terminated.
Qiang Duan; Yuhong Yan; Vasilakos, A.V., "A Survey on Service-Oriented Network Virtualization Toward Convergence of Networking and Cloud Computing," Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on , vol.9, no.4, pp.373,392, December 2012
ErrealMedia (2010) Network standards OSI Reference Model; History of OSI Model; OSI Layers in Action http://www.erealmedia.com/cms125/
Kim, H & Feamster, N 2013, 'Improving network management with software defined networking', Communications Magazine, IEEE, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 114-9.
Frame relay is considered packet switched network because all frames are send through different hops by the servic...
CSC: Next Generation IT Infrastructure, Services & Solutions. (2014, April 3). Retrieved May 1, 2014, from http://www.csc.com/
The TCP/IP is the most important internet operation protocol in the world. While IP protocol performs the mass of the functions which is needed for the internet to work. It does not have many capabilities which are essential and needed by applications. In TCP/IP model these tasks are performed by a pair of protocols that operate at the transport layer. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). These two protocols are vital when it comes to delivering and managing the communication of numerous applications. To pass on data streams to the proper applications the Transport layer must identify the target application. First, to be able to attain this, Transport layer assigns an application an identifier. In the TCP/IP model call this identifier a port number. Every individual software process needing to access the network is assigned a un...