Exercise 7.2: Case Study 2

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Rag-Tag Books has asked you to assist them in converting from their full-mesh ATM network (shown in Figure 7.45) to an MPLS VPN. Each store has four connections. They are running a variety of ATM traffic, with uncommitted information rate comprising most of their traffic. However, QoS is required for the 10 percent of their traffic that runs the SAP database.

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Figure 7.45: Case Study 2

1. 

Is MPLS VPN service appropriate, and if so, why?

 fully meshed networks could produce a cost justification for mpls service.

2. 

Which MPLS VPN service is recommended?

 in order to recommend a vpn service, you would need to know whether the interfaces are layer 2 or layer 3. additional information is needed

3. 

How do you justify your recommendation?

 further study is needed to make a vpn recommendation.no recommendations were made because the interfaces and requirements ere not clearly defined.

Answers

1. 

Fully meshed networks could produce a cost justification for MPLS service.

2. 

In order to recommend a VPN service, you would need to know whether the interfaces are Layer 2 or Layer 3. Additional information is needed

3. 

Further study is needed to make a VPN recommendation. No recommendations were made because the interfaces and requirements ere not clearly defined.



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Rick Gallagher's MPLS Training Guide. Building Multi-Protocol Label Switching Networks
Rick Gallahers MPLS Training Guide: Building Multi Protocol Label Switching Networks
ISBN: 1932266003
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 138

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