MPLS
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Dafi Yondra
Outline
Overview
What Are the Foundations of Traditional IP Routing?
Basic MPLS Features
Benefits of MPLS
What Are the MPLS Architecture Components?
What Are LSRs?
Summary
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Why MPLS ?
A HQ
B Branch
192.168.1.0/24
192.168.4.0/24
D HQ
Pekanbaru
Balikpapan
192.168.1.0/24
C Branch
192.168.4.0/24
C HQ
D Branch
192.168.3.0/24
192.168.2.0/24
B HQ
192.168.3.0/24
Jakarta
Surabaya
A Branch
192.168.2.0/24
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Question :
Why havent heard about MPLS ?
Answer :
Probably because of the availability
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Networking
There are three (3) networking methode available to
manage networks :
Routing
protocols : RIP, OSPF, BGP
Bridging
protocols : STP, RSTP
Switching
protocols : MPLS, ATM, Frame Relay
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Concept of Switching
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Switching
Switching is a network communications methode
that groups all transmitted data no matter of
content, type or structure into suitably-sized
blocks.
Each block is then transmited over the network
independently of each other
Network is capable of allocating transmission
resources as needed, in this way optimizing
utilization of link capacity and robustness of
communication
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What is
MPLS ?
What is MPLS
MPLS stands for Multi protocol Label Switching
MPLS is a packet forwarding metho based on
labels attached to packet and a label forwarding
table with minimal lookup overhead
With MPLS the packet forwarding decision is no
longer based on IP header and routing table
Efficiency of forwarding process is the main
benefit of MPLS
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Traditional IP Routing
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Topology MPLS
R3
R5
R1
R6
END HOST
R2
R4
END HOST
R1 & R6 = Provider Edge (PE) Router = Edge Label Switch Router (ELSR)
R2, R3, R4, R5 = Provider (P) Router = Label Switch Router (LSR)
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EDGE LSR
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LSRs:
Architecture of Edge LSRs
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MPLS core routers swap labels and forward packets based on simple label
lookups.
MPLS edge routers also perform a routing table lookup, and add or remove
labels.
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Component of MPLS
MPLS VPN
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MPLS QoS
MPLS Traffic Engineering
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Benefits of MPLS
MPLS supports multiple applications including:
Unicast and multicast IP routing
VPN
TE
QoS
AToM (Any Transport over MPLS)
How To Practice ?
Using MPLS enabled Real Hardware
Cisco
Alcatel Lucent
Mikrotik
Using Emulator
Packet Tracer ?
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Summary
Traditional IP routing forwards packets based on the
destination address.
MPLS forwards packets based on labels.
MPLS supports multiple applications.
MPLS has two major architectural components:
Control plane (exchanges routing information, exchanges
labels)
Data plane (forwards packets)
LSRs implement label exchange protocols and primarily
forward packets based on labels. The role of Edge LSRs is
primarily to forward packets into and out of the MPLS
domain.
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Q&A
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