A guide to designing and implementing VPLS services over an IP/MPLS switched service provider backbone

Today''s communication providers are looking for convenience, simplicity, and flexible bandwidth across wide area networks—but with the quality of service and control that is critical for business networking applications like video, voice and data. Carrier Ethernet VPN services based on VPLS makes this a reality. Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is a pseudowire (PW) based, multipoint-to-multipoint layer 2 Ethernet VPN service provided by service providers. By deploying a VPLS service to customers, the operator can focus on providing high throughput, highly available Ethernet bridging services and leave the layer 3 routing decision up to the customer.

Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) is quickly becoming the number one choice for many enterprises and service providers to deploy data communication networks. Alcatel-Lucent VPLS solution enables service providers to offer enterprise customers the operational cost benefits of Ethernet with the predictable QoS characteristics of MPLS.

Items Covered:

Building Converged Service Networks with IP/MPLS VPN Technology

IP/MPLS VPN Multi-Service Network Overview

Using MPLS Label Switched Paths as Service Transport Tunnels

Routing Protocol Traffic Engineering and CSPF

RSVP-TE Protocol

MPLS Resiliency — Secondary LSP

MPLS Resiliency — RSVP-TE LSP Fast Reroute

Label Distribution Protocol

IP/MPLS VPN Service Routing Architecture

Virtual Leased Line Services

Virtual Private LAN Service

Hierarchical VPLS

High Availability in an IP/MPLS VPN Network

VLL Service Resiliency

VPLS Service Resiliency

VPLS BGP Auto-Discovery

PBB-VPLS

OAM in a VPLS Service Network