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Scenario: As the captain of an interstellar spaceship you are responsible for the well-being of your ship. You need to setup a secure line to exchange information between your crewmembers. You are going to use a technique that…
Read More »MPLS Traffic Engineering per L2TPV3
Scenario: You are the senior network engineer for a large MPLS provider based in the United Kingdom. 2 of your customers called “Toy” and “Arcade” would like to use your MPLS services to connect their HQ and branch…
Read More »MPLS Traffic Engineering per VRF
Scenario: You are the senior network engineer for a large MPLS provider based in the United Kingdom. 2 of your customers called “Toy” and “Arcade” would like to use your MPLS services to connect their HQ and branch…
Read More »MPLS AtoM / Pseudowire Frame-Relay over MPLS (FoMPLS)
Scenario: Molenaar Furniture is a wholesaler of furniture & more and located in The Netherlands. Recently the company has been expanding their business by taking it online. The warehouse needs to be connected to the store to make…
Read More »MPLS AtoM / Pseudowire Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS)
Scenario: One of the largest service providers in The Netherlands has been succesfully implementing MPLS in their backbone. The last years they have been serving customers with PE-CE setups without any problem. Yesterday a new customer specialized in…
Read More »MPLS VPN PE CE using OSPF & Sham-Link
Scenario: You have been dreaming of starting your own ISP for years and now the moment is finally here. You bought a couple of brand new routers and you are about to implement your MPLS backbone. Your first…
Read More »MPLS VPN PE CE using RIP
Scenario: You have been dreaming of starting your own ISP for years and now the moment is finally here. You bought a couple of brand new routers and you are about to implement your MPLS backbone. Your first…
Read More »MPLS Label Filtering
Scenario: Your MPLS Backbone works like a charm but your security officer still has some issues. He doesn’t like that some of the prefixes are advertised with a label and it’s up to you to fix it….bring on…
Read More »MPLS LDP
Scenario: As the senior network engineer for a small ISP you are responsible for all new network services. New customers are requesting MPLS services and so you decide to implement a new network. You want to start with…
Read More »VRF Lite
Scenario: You are running a small ISP on a tropical location somewhere in the pacific, recently two new customers have arrived and they both have 2 sites to connect. There’s a headquarters (HQ) and a branch office and…
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